Profiles of older medicare decedents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1108-1112

  Lunney, June R ^a,c   Lynn, Joanne ^a   Hogan, Christopher ^b  

^a Center to Improve Care of the Dying   (United States)

^b Direct Research   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; End of life; Health expenditures; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SUDDEN DEATH; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036087772     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50268.x     Document Type: Article

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