Impact of emerging health insurance arrangements on diabetes outcomes and disparities: Rationale and study design

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Frank Wharam, J ^b   Soumerai, Steve ^a   Trinacty, Connie ^a   Eggleston, Emma ^a   Zhang, Fang ^a   LeCates, Robert ^a   Canning, Claire ^a   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^a  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873545668     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.120147     Document Type: Article

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