Racial differences in admissions to high-quality hospitals for coronary heart disease

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1209-1215

  Popescu, Ioana ^a   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^b   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a   Cram, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CARE UNITS; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955283866     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.227     Document Type: Article

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