Short-term persistence of high health care costs in a nationally representative sample of children

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Liptak, Gregory S ^a,c   Shone, Laura P ^a   Auinger, Peggy ^a   Dick, Andrew W ^b   Ryan, Sheryl A ^a   Szilagyi, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health services; Chronic disease; Health care surveys; Health expenditures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750115712     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2264     Document Type: Article

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