A methodology for identifying married couples in medicare data: Mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 413-419

  Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a   Zhang, James X ^b   Lauderdale, Diane S ^b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^b  

^a The University of Chicago   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; SPOUSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032198769     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004010     Document Type: Article

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