Disparities in patterns of health care travel among inpatients diagnosed with congestive heart failure, Florida, 2011

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Jia, Peng ^a   Xierali, Imam M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK PERSON; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84943566873     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd12.150079     Document Type: Article

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