Insurance policies and perceived quality of primary care among privately insured patients: Do features of managed care widen the racial, ethnic, and language-based gaps?

Medical Care

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 966-974

  Stepanikova, Irena ^a,b   Cook, Karen S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Building 120 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Capitation; Ethnicity; Gatekeeping; Language; Perceived quality of primary care; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; TELEPHONE; ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPITATION FEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CAPITATION FEE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GATEKEEPING; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LANGUAGE; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POPULATION GROUPS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 6344219656     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200410000-00005     Document Type: Review

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