Racial disparity in access to cardiac intensive care over 20 years

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-165

  Shippee, Tetyana P ^a   Ferraro, Kenneth F ^b,c   Thorpe, Roland J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac care; health care access; prospective cohort study; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLACK POPULATION; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RACIAL DISPARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY CARE UNIT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957525558     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2010.544292     Document Type: Article

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