Predictors of health resource use by disabled older female medicare beneficiaries living in the community

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 371-379

  Weiner, Michael ^a,b,c   Fan, Ming Yu ^d   Johnson, Brent A ^d   Kasper, Judith D ^d   Anderson, Gerard F ^d   Fried, Linda P ^d,e,f  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled persons; Health expenditures; Health services for the aged; Medicare; Women

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSON; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PREDICTION; RESIDENTIAL HOME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0037344104     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51111.x     Document Type: Article

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