Racial and gender variation in use of diagnostic colonic procedures in the Michigan Medicare population.

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Published in Med Care on July 01, 1999

Authors

L F McMahon1, R A Wolfe, S Huang, P Tedeschi, W Manning, M J Edlund

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1: Department of Internal Medicine, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0376, USA. lmcmahon@umich.edu

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