Nursing home admissions among medicaid HCBS enrollees: Evidence of racial/ethnic disparities or differences?

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 566-573

  Cai, Xueya ^a   Temkin Greener, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

dual eligible; home based and community based services; Medicaid; nursing home; race and ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DUAL ELIGIBILITY (HEALTH INSURANCE); FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; HOME BASED AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME ADMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933519435     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000379     Document Type: Article

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