Health of medicare advantage plan enrollees at 1 year after Hurricane Katrina

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Burton, Lynda C ^a   Skinner, Elizabeth A ^a   Uscher Pines, Lori ^a   Lieberman, Richard ^b   Left, Bruce ^a,c   Clark, Rebecca ^a   Yu, Qilu ^c   Lemke, Klaus W ^a   Weiner, Jonathan P ^a  

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

^b Health Data Services Inc   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CYCLONES; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICARE PART C; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849105919     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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