Do Minority Patients Use Lower Quality Hospitals?

• मुख्य लेखकों: Darrell J. Gaskin (लेखक), Christine S. Spencer (लेखक), Patrick Richard (लेखक), Gerard Anderson (लेखक), Neil R. Powe (लेखक), Thomas A. LaVeist (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: SAGE Publishing, 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Employing three years of inpatient discharge data from 11 states and inpatient and patient safety quality indicators from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), this paper explored whether minority (black, Hispanic, and Asian) patients used lower quality hospitals. We found that the...