Are Female Nurses Treated Differently?

Are hypertensive elderly patients treated differently?

OBJECTIVES 1. To determine if there are differences in the classes of antihypertensive agents prescribed for the elderly population as compared with younger patients. 2. To compare patterns of antihypertensive therapy with established national guidelines. DESIGN National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) database analysis from 1995-2000. SETTING Multiple outpatient clinic settings in t...

Are uninsured trauma patients treated differently?

Child Gender and Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

Previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India. However estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments could be biased if girls end up in larger families due to son-biased stopping rules. Using a novel identification strategy that exploits that gender at conception is random, we document that boys receive more childcare time than gir...

Women and men with coronary heart disease in three countries: are they treated differently?

BACKGROUND Nonmedical determinants of medical decision making were investigated in an international research project in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The key question in this paper is whether and to what extent doctors' diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in coronary heart disease (CHD) are influenced by patient gender. METHODS A factorial experiment with a videotaped p...

Are Nurses Recognizing Delirium?

Recognizing Delirium? A Systematic Review Thirty-eight percent of all hospital inpatients in the United States in 2005 were older than age 65 (DeFrances & Hall, 2007). The prevalence of delirium on hospital admission has been reported from 14% to 24%, whereas the incidence has been documented from 6% to 56% (Agostini & Inouye, 2003; Inouye, 1998). Thus, delirium is a prevalent, costly, and glob...