Racial and Ethnic Differences in Heart Failure Readmissions and Mortality in a Large Municipal Healthcare System

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 885-893

  Durstenfeld, Matthew S ^a   Ogedegbe, Olugbenga ^a,b   Katz, Stuart D ^a   Park, Hannah ^a   Blecker, Saul ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnicity; health disparities; heart failure; morbidity; mortality; outcomes research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NEW YORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW YORK CITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994157622     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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