Medicaid bed-hold policies and hospitalization of long-stay nursing home residents

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1617-1633

  Unruh, Mark Aaron ^a   Grabowski, David C ^b   Trivedi, Amal N ^c   Mor, Vincent ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bed hold policies; hospitalization; Medicaid; Medicare

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RANDOM SAMPLE; REIMBURSEMENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

BED-HOLD POLICIES; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAID; MEDICARE;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAID; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884901944     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12054     Document Type: Article

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