Racial and ethnic group variations in service use in a national sample of medicare home health care patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1123-1129

  Yeboah Korang, Amoah ^a   Kleppinger, Alison ^b   Fortinsky, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

diabetes mellitus care; health disparities; Medicare home care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 79958774896     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03424.x     Document Type: Article

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