Use of mechanical and noninvasive ventilation in black and white chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients within the Veterans Administration health care system - Cannon, Katrina T; Sarrazin, Mary Vaughan; Rosenthal, Gary E; Curtis, Ann E; Thomas, Karl W; Kaldjian, Lauris C (Medical care, 2009)
Keywords: African Americans - statistics & numerical data; Age Factors; Aged; Cohort Studies; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure - utilization; Databases, Factual; European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data; Female; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare Disparities; Hospitals, Veterans - standards; Humans; Life Support Care - utilization; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - ethnology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - therapy; Quality of Health Care; Respiration, Artificial - utilization; Respiratory Insufficiency - ethnology; Respiratory Insufficiency - etiology; Respiratory Insufficiency - therapy; Sex Factors; United States; United States Department of Veterans Affairs - standards; United States