Racial and ethnic differences in hospitalization rates among aged medicare beneficiaries, 1998

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 91-105

  Eggers, P W ^a   Greenberg, L G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; RACE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENSUSES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES;

EID: 0033695198     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. HCFA's racial and ethnic data: Current accuracy and recent improvements
2. Relation of race and sex to the use of reperfusion therapy in medicare beneficiaries with acute myocardial infarction
3. Racial and ethnic differences in mortality at older ages
4. Estimating African-American mortality from inaccurate data
5. Black-white differences in the use of medical care by the elderly: A contemporary analysis
6. Revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity
7. Plausible explanations for disparities in the use of medicare services and ways to effect a change
8. Effects of race and income on mortality and use of services among medicare beneficiaries
9. The expanded racial and ethnic codes in the medicare data files: Their completeness of coverage and accuracy
10. Mortality and morbidity among hispanic elderly
11. Health and disablity differences among racial and ethnic groups
12. Mammography use helps to explain differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis between older black and white women
13. Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures
14. African-American mortality at older ages: Results of a matching study
15. Race, socioeconomic status, and health in late life
16. Validity of demographic characteristics on the death certificate
17. Racial differences in the early detection of breast cancer in Metropolitan Detroit, 1978 to 1987