Hospital Episodes and Physician Visits: The Concordance between Self-Reports and Medicare Claims

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-307

  Wolinsky, Fredric D ^a,b   Miller, Thomas R ^b   An, Hyonggin ^b   Geweke, John F ^b   Wallace, Robert B ^b   Wright, Kara B ^b   Chrischilles, Elizabeth A ^b   Liu, Li ^b   Pavlik, Claire B ^b   Cook, Elizabeth A ^b   Ohsfeldt, Robert L ^c   Richardson, Kelly K ^a,b   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; SELF DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SELF DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES;

EID: 34247634071     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000254576.26353.09     Document Type: Article

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