Mortality, hospitalizations, and expenditures for the medicare population aged 65 years or older, 1999-2013

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 355-365

  Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c   Nuti, Sudhakar V ^a,c   Downing, Nicholas S ^a,c   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^d,e   Wang, Yun ^c,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL FEE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; MEDICARE; MEDICARE PART C; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938308876     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.8035     Document Type: Article

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