Inequality in Quality

Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship

1999 • 2,101 citations

The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization

1999 • 1,920 citations

Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality

1998 • 1,507 citations

The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients

2000 • 1,473 citations

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health

1993 • 1,078 citations

Racial Differences in the Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer

1999 • 991 citations

Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health Care

1995 • 906 citations

US mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.

1995 • 853 citations

Ethnicity as a Risk Factor for Inadequate Emergency Department Analgesia

1993 • 845 citations

Effects of Race and Income on Mortality and Use of Services among Medicare Beneficiaries

1996 • 828 citations

Rates of Avoidable Hospitalization by Insurance Status in Massachusetts and Maryland

1992 • 684 citations

Influence of Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors on Racial Differences in Late-Stage Presentation of Breast Cancer

1998 • 661 citations

The Effect of Patients' Preferences on Racial Differences in Access to Renal Transplantation

1999 • 595 citations

Pain and Treatment of Pain in Minority Patients with Cancer: The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Minority Outpatient Pain Study

1997 • 525 citations

Racial Differences in the Use of Invasive Cardiovascular Procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical System

1993 • 515 citations

Improving the Quality of Care for Medicare Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

1998 • 509 citations

The Unreliability of Individual Physician "Report Cards" for Assessing the Costs and Quality of Care of a Chronic Disease

1999 • 503 citations

The seven pillars of quality.

1990 • 483 citations

Access to Care Is the Centerpiece in the Elimination of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health

1998 • 406 citations

Racial Differences in the Use of Revascularization Procedures After Coronary Angiography

1993 • 402 citations

Potentially avoidable hospitalizations: inequalities in rates between US socioeconomic groups.

1997 • 395 citations

Children's access to primary care: differences by race, income, and insurance status.

1996 • 384 citations

Racial Differences in the Use of Drug Therapy for HIV Disease in an Urban Community

1994 • 372 citations

Racial differences in the elderly's use of medical procedures and diagnostic tests.

1993 • 337 citations

Demographic and economic correlates of health in old age

1997 • 329 citations

Is the SF-36 a valid measure of change in population health? Results from the Whitehall II study

1997 • 321 citations

Health Care for Black and Poor Hospitalized Medicare Patients

1994 • 319 citations

Effect of Race on the Presentation and Management of Patients with Acute Chest Pain

1993 • 308 citations

Racial variation in cardiac procedure use and survival following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs

1994 • 304 citations

Barriers to care among persons living with HIV/AIDS in urban and rural areas

1998 • 293 citations

The effect of socioeconomic status on chronic disease risk behaviors among US adolescents

1996 • 287 citations

Social Conditions and Self-Management Are More Powerful Determinants of Health Than Access to Care

1998 • 277 citations

Ophthalmic Examination Among Adults With Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus

1993 • 259 citations

The health care quality improvement initiative. A new approach to quality assurance in Medicare

1992 • 257 citations

Racial and Community Factors Influencing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Rates for All 1986 Medicare Patients

1992 • 256 citations

Determinants of Black/White Differences in Colon Cancer Survival

1995 • 229 citations

A Causal Model of Health Status and Satisfaction With Medical Care

1993 • 228 citations

Quality of Care Information Makes a Difference

1998 • 227 citations

Quality of Care by Race and Gender for Congestive Heart Failure and Pneumonia

1999 • 222 citations

Racial disparities in reported prenatal care advice from health care providers.

1994 • 217 citations

The Association Between Health Care Coverage and the Use of Cancer Screening Tests

1998 • 200 citations

Racial Differences in Health and Health Care Service Utilization in Later Life: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status

1991 • 198 citations

Reverse Targeting of Preventive Care due to Lack of Health Insurance

1988 • 197 citations

Preventable Hospitalizations And Socioeconomic Status

1998 • 194 citations

Access to Medical Care for Children and Adolescents in the United States

1990 • 188 citations

Linking Automated Databases for Research in Managed Care Settings

1997 • 170 citations

Skepticism Toward Medical Care and Health Care Utilization

1998 • 168 citations

Variations in the Utilization of Coronary Angiography for Elderly Patients with an Acute Myocardial Infarction

1995 • 164 citations

Trends and Black/White Differences in Treatment for Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer

1998 • 158 citations

The knowledge and use of screening tests for colorectal and prostate cancer: Data from the 1987 national health interview survey

1990 • 157 citations

Differences by race in the rates of procedures performed in hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries.

1994 • 149 citations

Stage at presentation and survival of white and black patients with prostate carcinoma

1993 • 148 citations

Dealing with geographic variations in the use of hospitals. The experience of the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation Orthopaedic Study Group.

1990 • 146 citations

Underuse of Cardiac Procedures: Do Women, Ethnic Minorities, and the Uninsured Fail To Receive Needed Revascularization?

1999 • 136 citations

Do Patient Preferences Contribute to Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Procedure Use?

1997 • 135 citations

Racial and ethnic differences in the use of invasive cardiac procedures among cardiac patients in Los Angeles County, 1986 through 1988.

1995 • 130 citations

Predictors of prenatal care utilization

1988 • 130 citations

Enhancing Performance Measurement

1999 • 119 citations

Determinants of Emergency Department Use: Are Race and Ethnicity Important?

1996 • 116 citations

Impact of Sociodemographic Case Mix on the HEDIS Measures of Health Plan Quality

2000 • 115 citations

Class, Health, and Justice

1998 • 114 citations

What Mothers Say About Why Poor Children Fall Behind on Immunizations

1995 • 112 citations

The Influence of Race on the Use of Surgical Procedures for Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease of the Lower Extremities

1995 • 111 citations

Access to bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and lymphoma: the role of sociodemographic factors.

1997 • 109 citations

Increasing Immunization Rates Among Inner-City, African American Children

1998 • 106 citations

The impact of patient socioeconomic status and other social factors on readmission: a prospective study in four Massachusetts hospitals.

1994 • 105 citations

Predictors of Antidepressant Prescription and Early Use Among Depressed Outpatients

1999 • 102 citations

Racial and gender differences in use of procedures for black and white hospitalized adults.

1997 • 96 citations

Examination of Racial Differences in Management of Cardiovascular Disease

1997 • 94 citations

Socioeconomic Factors Affecting the Utilization of Surgical Operations

1977 • 92 citations

Medical Care Utilization by Hispanic Children

1986 • 81 citations

Understanding racial variation in the use of carotid endarterectomy: the role of aversion to surgery.

1998 • 80 citations

Enhancing Mammography Use in the Inner City

1997 • 79 citations

Elective Cervical Discectomy in California

1997 • 78 citations

Trends in Cancer Screening—United States, 1987 and 1992

1996 • 68 citations

Medicaid Participation Among Urban Primary Care Physicians

1997 • 62 citations

Quality of Ambulatory Care

1990 • 62 citations

Impact of a Large-Scale Immunization Initiative in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

1998 • 60 citations

Prospects for eliminating racial differences in breast cancer survival rates.

1982 • 60 citations

The Effects of Health Beliefs on Screening Mammography Utilization Among a Diverse Sample of Older Women

1997 • 59 citations

Visits to Specialists Under Medicare: Socioeconomic Advantage and Access to Care

1998 • 58 citations

Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage

1999 • 57 citations

Quality of ambulatory care. Epidemiology and comparison by insurance status and income.

1990 • 52 citations

Addressing Racial Inequities in Health Care: Civil Rights Monitoring and Report Cards

1998 • 51 citations

The prevalence of risk factors among women in the United States by race and age, 1992-1994: opportunities for primary and secondary prevention.

1998 • 46 citations

Trends in cesarean section use in California, 1983 to 1990

1993 • 43 citations

The prevalence of tympanostomy tubes in children in the United States, 1988.

1993 • 39 citations

Influence of Patient Education on Profiles of Physician Practices

1999 • 38 citations

Public health service. The initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities is moving forward

1999 • 36 citations

Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease?

1994 • 36 citations

Recent trends in cesarean section use in California.

1990 • 35 citations

Differences in the patterns of age-specific black/white comparisons between end-stage renal disease attributed and not attributed to diabetes

1995 • 35 citations

Racial differences in late prenatal care visits.

1993 • 34 citations

Understanding and enhancing compliance with the second dose of hepatitis B vaccine: a cohort analysis and a randomized controlled trial.

1997 • 33 citations

Hospitalizations With Adverse Events Caused by Digitalis Therapy Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries

1994 • 27 citations

The relationship between census-derived socio-economic variables and general practice consultation rates in three town centre practices.

1998 • 18 citations

Is reasonable access what we want

1992 • 5 citations