The relationship of community-based nurse care coordination to costs in the medicare and medicaid programs

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-242

  Marek, Karen Dorman ^a   Adams, Scott J ^a   Stetzer, Frank ^a   Popejoy, Lori ^b   Rantz, Marilyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Care coordination; Home and communitybased care; Long term care; Medicaid costs; Medicare costs; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953933832     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20378     Document Type: Article

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