Does racial concordance between HIV-positive patients and their physicians affect the time to receipt of protease inhibitors?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1146-1153

  King, William D ^a   Wong, Mitchell D ^b,e   Shapiro, Martin F ^b   Landon, Bruce E ^d   Cunningham, William E ^b,c  

^a UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clin S   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; HIV; Physician patient relations; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 9244232812     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.30443.x     Document Type: Article

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