Back to Search
Start Over
GETTING THE NUMBERS RIGHT: statistical mischief and racial profiling in heart failure research.
- Source :
-
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine . Autumn2003, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p473-483. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2003
-
Abstract
- Focuses on the controversies surrounding racial profiling in heart failure research. Legitimacy of using social categories of race in biomedical research; Study of the black and white mortality ratio for heart failure; Implications for the allocation of resources to combat disease and to expand the study of the nature and meaning of race.
- Subjects :
- *HEART failure
*MEDICAL research
*MORTALITY & race
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00315982
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Perspectives in Biology & Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11329376
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0087