The associations between race and geographic area and quality-of-care indicators in patients approaching ESRD

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 610-618

  Yan, Guofen ^a   Cheung, Alfred K ^c   Ma, Jennie Z ^a   Yu, Alison J ^d   Greene, Tom ^c   Oliver, M Norman ^b   Yu, Wei ^a   Norris, Keith C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PLAN EMPLOYER DATA AND INFORMATION SET; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SEX; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84876024896     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07780812     Document Type: Article

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