Research Catalog

Title

Analysis of quality of care for patients who are black or poor in rural and urban settings / Katherine L. Kahn ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Kahn, Katherine L.
• United States. Health Care Financing Administration
• Rand Corporation
• Rand/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research

Description

xviii, 139 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

This study finds racial and financial characteristics influence the quality of care received by acutely ill, insured patients after hospital admission. The study uses a clinically detailed data set to examine a comprehensive range of services provided to patients with one of five serious, common diseases in different types of hospitals. The report examines quality of care provided to patients who are black, make use of Medicaid insurance in addition to Medicare, and live in poor neighborhoods, as compared with subsets of patients who are not black, do not have Medicaid insurance, and do not live in poor neighborhoods. It also compares quality of care for inner-city patients and rural patients with that for urban patients who are not poor.

Subject

• Poverty
• Hospitals, Urban
• Hospitals, Rural
• Delivery of Health Care
• African Americans > Evaluation
• Poor > Evaluation. > United States
• Rural hospitals > United States > Evaluation
• Black or African American
• United States

Genre/Form

• Tables
• Statistics

Note

• "MR-292-HCFA."
• "RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research."
• "Supported by the Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833014331

LCCN

^^^93029147^

OCLC

• 28547553
• SCSB-14234643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library