Does Race Influence Decision Making for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies?

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2019, Pages

  Breathett, Khadijah ^a   Yee, Erika ^a   Pool, Natalie ^b   Hebdon, Megan ^b   Crist, Janice D ^b   Knapp, Shannon ^b   Larsen, Ashley ^a   Solola, Sade ^c   Luy, Luis ^d   Herrera Theut, Kathryn ^c   Zabala, Leanne ^c   Stone, Jeff ^e   McEwen, Marylyn M ^b   Calhoun, Elizabeth ^b   Sweitzer, Nancy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; healthcare delivery; healthcare disparities; heart failure; heart transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOLOGIST; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM APPROPRIATENESS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; THORACIC SURGEON; TRUST; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; RACISM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 85074742493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013592     Document Type: Article

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