Gender bias revisited: New insights on the differential management of chest pain

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bösner, Stefan ^a   Haasenritter, Jörg ^a   Hani, Maren Abu ^a   Keller, Heidi ^a   Sönnichsen, Andreas C ^b   Karatolios, Konstantinos ^a   Schaefer, Juergen R ^a   Baum, Erika ^a   Donner Banzhoff, Norbert ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THORAX PAIN;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79957926359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-45     Document Type: Article

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