Commentary on "a methodology for identifying married couples in medicare data"

Demography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-249

  Kestenbaum, Bert ^a  

^a SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SPOUSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034181995     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648126     Document Type: Article

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