Patient characteristics and end-of-life health care utilization among medicare beneficiaries in 1989 and 1999

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 926-930

  Dy, Sydney M ^a,b,c   Wolff, Jennifer L ^a,b   Frick, Kevin D ^a  

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

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

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Functional status; Hospice; Institutionalization; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748864151     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31812714a5     Document Type: Article

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