Open AccessRace and sex differences in long-term survival rates for elderly patients with pulmonary embolism.
Author(s) -
R M Siddique,
Saeid B. Amini,
Alfred F. Connors,
Alfred A. Rimm
Publication year - 1998
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.88.10.1476
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary embolism , demography , national death index , cohort , cohort study , survival analysis , race (biology) , mortality rate , gerontology , hazard ratio , confidence interval , botany , sociology , biology
The goal of this study was to provide estimates of race- and sex-specific survival rates over a 10-year period for a cohort of 49,752 Medicare patients admitted to the hospital in 1984 with a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.
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