Assessing Health Status Differences Between Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care and State Medicaid Waiver Program Clients

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 260-264

  Wharton, Tracy C ^a,b   Nnodim, Joseph ^a,b   Hogikyan, Robert ^a,b   Mody, Lona ^a,b   James, Mary ^b   Montagnini, Marcos ^a,b   Fries, Brant E ^a,b  

^a VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

HBPC; Home health care; InterRAI; Primary care; Waiver program

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOME BASED PRIMARY CARE; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MICHIGAN WAIVER PROGRAM; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; STRESS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84878016915     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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