Racial Segregation and Disparities in Health Care Delivery: Conceptual Model and Empirical Assessment

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1424-1444

  Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a   Campbell, Mary E ^b   Richardson, Kelly K ^a   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Racial disparities; Revascularization; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKET; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEGRO; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREJUDICE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68249162074     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00977.x     Document Type: Article

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