Ownership status and home health care performance

Journal of Aging and Social Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 130-143

  Grabowski, David C ^a   Huskamp, Haiden A ^a   Stevenson, David G ^a   Keating, Nancy L ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge; For profit; Home health care; Nonprofit; Ownership

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOMEOWNERSHIP;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; OWNERSHIP; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149128515     PISSN: 08959420     EISSN: 15450821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08959420902728751     Document Type: Article

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