Gender, race and cardiac rehabilitation in the United States: Is there a difference in care?

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 146-152

  Menezes, Arthur R ^a   Lavie, Carl J ^a,b   Deschutter, Alban ^a   Milani, Richard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac Rehabilitation; Ethnic Minorities; Race; Women

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905121399     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0000000000000306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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