Racial disparities in hospitalizations, procedural treatments and mortality of patients hospitalized with atrial fibrillation

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 144-149

  Naderi, Sahar ^a   Rodriguez, Fátima ^b   Wang, Yun ^c   Foody, JoAnne M ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Hospitalizations; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVERSION; CAUCASIAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901354775     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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