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[Agency] AHRQ [Project Title] RACE AND CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION USE IN THE SETTING OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION [Institution] YALE UNIVERSITY [Amount] $0 [Summary] The proposed work, an investigation of racial variations in the use of cardiac catheterization in patients with myocardial infarction, is consonant with AHRQ's research mission of understanding factors influencing access to quality health care, and addresses two priority populations, minority groups and the elderly. The proposal's three projects - rigorously evaluating the quality of race data reporting in administrative data and medical records; determining whether racial variations in cardiac catheterization use reflect overtreatment of white patients, undertreatment of black patients, or a combination of processes; and the impact of racial differences in cardiac catheterization use on long-term survival - will help inform current efforts to address racial disparities in health and health care use. [Completion/ Closing Date] 12/02/2010 [Link] link [Category] 
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