Methodological issues in using multiple years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

Medicare and Medicaid Research Review

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Briesacher, Becky A ^a   Tjia, Jennifer ^a   Doubeni, Chyke A ^a   Chen, Yong ^a   Rao, Sowmya R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Health Care Surveys; Medicare current beneficiary survey; SAS; SUDAAN; Survey design; Survey sampling weight; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MEDICARE CURRENT BENEFICIARY SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICARE; SAMPLING STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930476507     PISSN: 21590354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.002.01.a04     Document Type: Article

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