Patient-physician race concordance and its relationship to perceived health outcomes

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-351

  Kumar, Disha ^a   Schlundt, David G ^a   Wallston, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Health disparities; Health insurance; Health status; Perceived health; Race concordance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 12; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TENNESSEE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349764797     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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