Open AccessAccess to hospitals with high-technology cardiac services: how is race important?
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Blustein,
Beth C. Weitzman
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.85.3.345
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , myocardial infarction , confidence interval , odds , emergency medicine , cardiac catheterization , medical emergency , demography , family medicine , logistic regression , sociology
Relatively few hospitals in the United States offer high-technology cardiac services (cardiac catheterization, bypass surgery, or angioplasty). This study examined the association between race and admission to a hospital offering those services.