Use of home health care by ESRD and Medicare beneficiaries

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 127-138

  Kauf, Teresa L ^b   Shih, Ya Chen Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENSUSES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032876942     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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