Differences between physician social networks for cardiac surgery serving communities with high versus low proportions of black residents

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 160-167

  Hollingsworth, John M ^a   Funk, Russell J ^b   Garrison, Spencer A ^c   Owen Smith, Jason ^c   Kaufman, Samuel R ^a   Landon, Bruce E ^d   Birkmeyer, John D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Dartmouth Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; racial disparities; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RACISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922064280     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000291     Document Type: Article

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