AGED;
ARTICLE;
CLASSIFICATION;
ECONOMICS;
ELDERLY CARE;
FEMALE;
HEALTH CARE COST;
HUMAN;
INJURY;
MALE;
MEDICAL FEE;
MEDICARE;
PREVALENCE;
STATISTICS;
UNITED STATES;
UTILIZATION REVIEW;
AGED;
AGED, 80 AND OVER;
FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS;
FEMALE;
HEALTH EXPENDITURES;
HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED;
HUMANS;
MALE;
MEDICARE;
PREVALENCE;
UNITED STATES;
WOUNDS AND INJURIES;
Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics
R.N. Anderson, "Deaths: Leading Causes for 1999," National Vital Statistics Reports 49, no. 11 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 2001).
Medicare claims for professional services usually include multiple services, with a designated diagnosis for each line item. The file included a small number of hospital "shadow" claims with injury diagnoses for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare HMOs. These claims cause a slight overstatement of the number of beneficiaries experiencing an injury in 1999 but do not affect spending because they are not paid claims.
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The total number of beneficiaries with an injury claim is thus less than the sum of the beneficiaries with a claim in each diagnosis category. Similarly, the unduplicated count of beneficiaries with a fracture claim in 1999 is less than the sum of beneficiaries with each type of fracture. This occurs because some beneficiaries experienced several different types of fractures during 1999.
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Reported totals include neither Medicare spending attributable to injury services included in Medicare HMO premiums, nor claims for the very small number of beneficiaries with incomplete enrollment records. Beneficiaries who do not seek Medicare-covered treatment for injuries are not included in the counts of injured beneficiaries.
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note
The cost and prevalence of open wounds from involuntary injury may be overstated because the diagnostic codes are sometimes used by home health agencies caring for beneficiaries with surgical wounds.
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Expanding the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to Monitor All Nonfatal Injuries Treated in U.S. Hospital Emergency Departments
K.P. Quinlan et al., "Expanding the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to Monitor All Nonfatal Injuries Treated in U.S. Hospital Emergency Departments," Annals of Emergency Medicine 34, no. 5 (1999): 637-645; and J.A. Stevens et al., "Surveillance for Injuries and Violence among Older Adults," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 48, no. SS08 (1999): 27-50.
Surveillance for Injuries and Violence among Older Adults
K.P. Quinlan et al., "Expanding the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to Monitor All Nonfatal Injuries Treated in U.S. Hospital Emergency Departments," Annals of Emergency Medicine 34, no. 5 (1999): 637-645; and J.A. Stevens et al., "Surveillance for Injuries and Violence among Older Adults," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 48, no. SS08 (1999): 27-50.
Advances in the Epidemiology of Injuries as a Basis for Public Policy
See W. Haddon Jr., "Advances in the Epidemiology of Injuries as a Basis for Public Policy," Public Health Reports 95, no. 5 (1980): 411-421; and L. Robertson, Injury Epidemiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
See W. Haddon Jr., "Advances in the Epidemiology of Injuries as a Basis for Public Policy," Public Health Reports 95, no. 5 (1980): 411-421; and L. Robertson, Injury Epidemiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
