Geographic and racial patterns of preventable hospitalizations for hypertension: Medicare beneficiaries, 2004-2009

Public Health Reports

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-18

  Will, Julie C ^a   Nwaise, Isaac A ^a   Schieb, Linda ^a   Zhong, Yuna ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84891869703     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491412900104     Document Type: Article

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