Refinements of a methodology for detecting married couples in the medicare data

Demography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-252

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICARE; NOTE; SPOUSE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; SPOUSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034181932     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648127     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Hatten, J. 1980. "Medicare's Common Denominator: The Covered Population." Health Care Financing Review 2(fall):53-64.
2. Iwashyna, T.J., J.X. Zhang, D.S. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis. 1998. "A Method for Identifying Married Couples in the Medicare Claims Data: Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Utilization Among the Elderly." Demography 35:413-19.
3. Kestenbaum, B. 1992. "A Description of the Extreme Aged Population Based on Improved Medicare Enrollment Data." Demography 29:565-80.