Changes in patterns of racial disparities in attending low-mortality hospitals and outcomes among patients with stroke

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Shen, Jay J ^a   Lu, Minggen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital; Mortality; Outcomes; Race; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; STROKE PATIENT; ADOLESCENT; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053325389     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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