Achieving Health Equity by Normalizing Cardiac Care
Purpose: It is well known that minority patients, and particularly African Americans undergo lower rates of cardiac procedures than the white population, even when covered by equivalent insurance. Methods: We analyzed the rates of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for acute myoca...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Mary Ann Liebert
2019-02-01
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Series: | Health Equity |
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Online Access: | https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/HEQ.2018.0067 |