Maintaining continuity of care for nursing home residents: Effect of states' medicaid bed-hold policies and reimbursement rates

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-55

  Intrator, Orna ^a   Schleinitz, Mark ^a   Grabowski, David C ^b   Zinn, Jacqueline ^c   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitalizations; Medicare; Minimum Data Set (MDS); Multilevel models; Relocation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING HOMES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58349116467     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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