Racial Inequalities in the Use of Procedures for Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease in Massachusetts

Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery

1973 • 1,865 citations

Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population

1986 • 659 citations

Accuracy of Diagnostic Coding for Medicare Patients under the Prospective-Payment System

1988 • 506 citations

Sociologic Influences on Decision-Making by Clinicians

1979 • 424 citations

Myocardial Infarction and Mortality in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Randomized Trial

1984 • 365 citations

A GENERAL ESTIMATOR FOR THE VARIANCE OF THE MANTEL HAENSZEL ODDS RATIO

1986 • 307 citations

Social and Economic Factors in the Choice of Lung Cancer Treatment

1988 • 275 citations

Coronary heart disease in black populations I. Mortality and morbidity

1982 • 218 citations

Divergence of the recent trends in coronary mortality for the four major race-sex groups in the United States.

1988 • 202 citations

The national profile of access to medical care: where do we stand?

1984 • 191 citations

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CORONARY DISEASE: COMPARISON OF DOCTORS' ATTITUDES IN THE USA AND THE UK

1988 • 176 citations

Explaining the Low Use of Health Services by the Poor: Costs, Attitudes, or Delivery Systems?

1978 • 162 citations

Coronary heart disease in black populations II. Risk factors

1982 • 156 citations

Coding of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1988 • 153 citations

Inequities in Health Services among Insured Americans

1988 • 135 citations

Relationship Between Patient Race and the Intensity of Hospital Services

1987 • 129 citations

Access to Health Care for the Poor: Does the Gap Remain?

1981 • 123 citations

Issues in the natural history and treatment of coronary heart disease in black populations: Surgical treatment

1984 • 112 citations

Blacks in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study: risk factors and coronary artery disease.

1986 • 102 citations

Using diagnosis-related groups for studying variations in hospital admissions.

1988 • 100 citations

Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease by Ethnic Group, Social Class, and Sex

1971 • 98 citations

Institutional Responses to Prospective Payment Based on Diagnosis-Related Groups

1985 • 95 citations

Socioeconomic Factors Affecting the Utilization of Surgical Operations

1977 • 92 citations

Improving Hospital Discharge Data: Lessons From the National Hospital Discharge Survey

1981 • 81 citations

Coronary artery bypass surgery and coronary angiography in the United States, 1979–1983

1987 • 79 citations

Relation between the Race and Economic Status of Patients and Who Performs Their Surgery

1977 • 69 citations

Effect of medical vs surgical treatment on symptoms in stable angina pectoris. The Veterans Administration Cooperative Study of surgery for coronary arterial occlusive disease.

1979 • 66 citations

Incidence of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Death from Coronary Heart Disease in Nashville, Tennessee

1971 • 60 citations

Acute myocardial infarction: Period prevalence, case fatality, and comparison of black and white cases in urban and rural areas of South Carolina

1985 • 53 citations

The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: I. Correlates of uncontrolled hypertension at baseline.

1984 • 49 citations

The Edgecombe County (NC) High Blood Pressure Control Program: II. Barriers to the use of medical care among hypertensives.

1984 • 42 citations

Acute Myocardial Infarction in Newark, NJ

1977 • 41 citations

Coronary artery disease in blacks: Risk factors

1984 • 34 citations

Use of ambulatory care services in three provider plans: interactions between patient characteristics and plans.

1984 • 32 citations

Does race affect hospital use?

1985 • 30 citations

Blacks in the coronary artery surgery study

1986 • 14 citations