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Article: Emergency Departments Test Chest Pain Patients Differently, Based on Race, Gender, Insurance.
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- February 1, 2007
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Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Johns Hopkins University has found that race, gender and insurance differences factor strongly in the evaluation of patients with chest pain seen in emergency departments.
The study, conducted by Liliana E. Pezzin, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the Medical College, along with co-investigators Gary B. Green, M.D., MPH, and Penelope Keyl, Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins, appears in the February 2007 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
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