Racial Disparities in the Use of Cardiac Revascularization: Does Local Hospital Capacity Matter?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Li, Suhui ^a   Chen, Arnold ^b   Mead, Katherine ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880479025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069855     Document Type: Article

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