Keynote address: The need for greater racial and ethnic diversity in orthopaedic surgery

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1809-1812

  Sullivan, Louis W ^a   Mittman, Ilana S ^a  

^a Office of Louis W Sullivan MD   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTHROPLASTY; CAREER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79959544020     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1708-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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