Medicare expenditures among nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 824-830

  Goldfeld, Keith S ^a   Stevenson, David G ^b   Hamel, Mary Beth ^c   Mitchell, Susan L ^c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; TUBE FEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955770819     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.478     Document Type: Article

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