Racial disparities in congenital heart disease: Beyond red and blue

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 218-219

  Soskolne, Gayle ^a   Collins, James W ^b   Fineman, Jeffrey R ^a   Fuentes Afflick, Elena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; congenital heart disease; disparity; Fontan; Glenn; race; sociodemographic

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GLENN SHUNT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84858239265     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31822f112e     Document Type: Editorial

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