Geographic concentration Of home-based medical care providers

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1404-1409

  Yao, Nengliang Aaron ^a   Ritchie, Christine ^b   Camacho, Fabian ^c   Leff, Bruce ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Center on Aging and Health East   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; UNITED STATES; AGED; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HOME VISIT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84982300212     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1437     Document Type: Article

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