No Rx bias for poorer patients.(Clinical Capsules)(Brief Article)

Publication: Internal Medicine News

Publication Date: 15-JUL-04

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The higher rates of mortality and of disease severity seen in economically deprived patients with heart failure cannot be ascribed to physician bias in prescribing medications, according to Dr. F.A. McAlister of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and associates.

"It may be intriguing to speculate" that access to general...

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