Can quality reports help address health care disparities? Use and awareness of comparative quality information by African Americans

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 884-895

  SteelFisher, Gillian K ^a   Schneider, Eric C ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b   Blendon, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative quality information; Disparities; Quality; Quality of care; Quality reports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AWARENESS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349579936     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.0.0181     Document Type: Article

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