Expenditures for care of children with chronic illnesses enrolled in the Washington State Medicaid Program, fiscal year 1993

Pediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-204

  Ireys, Henry T ^a,c   Anderson, Gerard F ^a   Shaffer, Tom J ^a   Neff, John M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dept of Maternal and Child Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cerebral palsy; Chronic illness; Chronic respiratory disease; Costs; Cystic fibrosis; Diabetes; Malignant neoplasms; Medicaid; Muscular dystrophy; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAID; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA;

ASTHMA; BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAID; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0030743267     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.100.2.197     Document Type: Article

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