Open AccessDifferences in Admitting Hospital Characteristics for Black and White Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Ioana Popescu,
Peter Cram,
Mary VaughanSarrazin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.110.973628
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , confidence interval , referral , odds ratio , emergency medicine , logistic regression , demography , family medicine , sociology
Racial disparities in acute myocardial infarction treatment may be due to differences in admitting hospitals. Little is known about factors associated with hospital selection for black and white acute myocardial infarction patients.
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