Measuring equity: An index of health care disparities

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 84-90

  Siegel, Bruce ^a   Bear, Deborah ^a   Andres, Ellie ^a   Mead, Holly ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Hospital quality; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 66149094259     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.QMH.0000349973.61836.41     Document Type: Article

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