Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities in Rates of Knee Arthroplasty among Medicare Patients
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- 2 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (14) , 1350-1359
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa021569
Abstract
There are large variations in the use of knee arthroplasty among Medicare enrollees according to race or ethnic group and sex. Are racial and ethnic disparities more pronounced in some regions than in others, and if so, why?Keywords
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