Improving the AAPCC with health-status measures from the MCBS

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 59-75

  Gruenberg, Leonard ^a   Kaganova, Eugenia ^b   Hornbrook, Mark C ^b  

^a DataChron Health Systems Inc   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DISABILITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICARE; AGED; CAPITATION FEE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CAPITATION FEE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INSURANCE SELECTION BIAS; MALE; MEDICARE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029952515     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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