Recent national trends in acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations in Medicare: shrinking declines and growing disparities
Authors
Sacks, Naomi C.Ash, Arlene S.
Ghosh, Kaushik
Rosen, Amy K.
Wong, John B.
Cutler, David M.
Rosen, Allison B.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Quantitative Health SciencesDocument Type
Letter to the EditorPublication Date
2015-07-01Keywords
African AmericansAged
Aged, 80 and over
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Healthcare Disparities
Hospitalization
Humans
Male
Medicare
Multivariate Analysis
Myocardial Infarction
Poisson Distribution
United States
Clinical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Health Services Administration
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We looked at trends in AMI (acute myocardial infarction) hospitalization rates among elderly Medicare beneficiaries over the 10-year period 2002 to 2011, focusing specifically on whether the post-2007 declines are also more modest for blacks than for whites, potentially reflecting a growing gap in care.Source
Epidemiology. 2015 Jul;26(4):e46-7. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/30686PubMed ID
25924109Related Resources
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10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298