Treatment and Outcomes for Congestive Heart Failure by Race/Ethnicity in TRICARE
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Treatment and Outcomes for Congestive Heart Failure by Race/Ethnicity in TRICARE

Published: May 01, 2011
Publisher: Medical Care, vol. 49, issue 5
Health Delivery System Reforms
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Authors

Ann D. Bagchi

Kate Stewart

Catherine McLaughlin

Patricia Higgins

Thomas Croghan

This study examines racial/ethnic disparities in the treatment and outcomes of care for TRICARE beneficiaries with congestive heart failure. Although there are some racial and ethnic disparities in receiving pharmacological therapy among beneficiaries, these differences do not translate into disparities in the likelihood of a potentially avoidable hospitalization.

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