Racial and gender disparities in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement: Are they due to overuse or underuse?

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-246

  Cook, Nakela L ^a   Orav, E John ^b   Liang, Catherine L ^b   Guadagnoli, Edward ^c   Hicks, Leroi S ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator; Race Ethnicity; Sex; Ventricular Arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATOR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEGRO; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952999579     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: 15526801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558710379421     Document Type: Article

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