Racial and ethnic differences in hospice use among patients with heart failure

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 427-432

  Givens, Jane L ^a   Tjia, Jennifer ^c   Zhou, Chao ^b   Emanuel, Ezekiel ^d   Ash, Arlene S ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; AGE; CAUCASIAN; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77950359579     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.547     Document Type: Article

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