Is certainty more important than diagnosis for understanding race and gender disparities?: An experiment using coronary heart disease and depression case vignettes

Health Policy

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-287

  Lutfey, Karen E ^a   Link, Carol L ^a   Grant, Richard W ^b   Marceau, Lisa D ^a   McKinlay, John B ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty; CHD; Clinical decision making; Depression; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SEX FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 60849137469     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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