Predictors of voluntary disenrollment from medicare managed care

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 513-520

  Ng, Judy H ^a   Kasper, Judith D ^b   Forrest, Christopher B ^b   Bierman, Arlene S ^c  

^a NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE   (United States)

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

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Health insurance; Healthstatus; Managed care; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE SELECTION BIAS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICARE PART C; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249047636     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31802f91a5     Document Type: Article

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