Health insurance status and the care of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2047-2053

  Goldfeld, Keith S ^a   Grabowski, David C ^b   Caudry, Daryl J ^b   Mitchell, Susan L ^c,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAIN; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890692804     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10573     Document Type: Article

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