Medication use, emergency hospital care utilization, and quality-of-life outcome disparities by race/ethnicity among adults with asthma

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 821-828

  Mosen, David M ^a   Schatz, Michael ^b   Gold, Rachel ^a   Mularski, Richard A ^a   Wong, Winston F ^c   Bellows, Jim ^c  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Care Management Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESKIMO; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ASTHMA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649878816     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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