Low-quality, high-cost hospitals, mainly in South, care for sharply higher shares of elderly black, Hispanic, and medicaid patients

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1904-1911

  Jha, Ashish K ^a   John Orav, E ^b   Epstein, Arnold M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855982664     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0027     Document Type: Article

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