Do physicians attend to base rates? prevalence data and statistical discrimination in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease: Physicians and coronary heart disease

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1933-1949

  Maserejian, Nancy N ^b   Lutfey, Karen E ^a   McKinlay, John B ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Coronary heart disease; Diagnosis; Gender differences in care; Statistical discrimination

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; RACISM; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIGNETTE;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 72849134902     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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