Editorial: Deconstructing racial and ethnic disparities in critical care

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 978-980

  Cooke, Colin R ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Healthcare delivery; Healthcare disparities; Hospitals; Minority health; Pneumonia; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NEGRO; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CRITICAL CARE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77249126916     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc15d3     Document Type: Editorial

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