Preventable hospitalization among elderly medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1344-1349

  Niefeld, Marlene R ^a   Braunstein, Joel B ^b   Wu, Albert W ^a   Saudek, Christopher D ^c   Weller, Wendy E ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^a  

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041667999     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.5.1344     Document Type: Article

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