End of life medicare and medicaid expenditures for dually eligible beneficiaries

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 95-110

  Liu, Korbin ^a   Wiener, Joshua M ^b   Niefeld, Marlene R ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT T TEST; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748316475     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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