India's largest hospital insurance program faces challenges in using claims data to measure quality

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1792-1799

  Morton, Matthew ^a   Nagpal, Somil ^b   Sadanandan, Rajeev ^c   Bauhoff, Sebastian ^d  

^a WORLD BANK   (India)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c GOVERNMENT OF KERALA   (India)

^d CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL CARE; INDIA; INSURANCE; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84994385985     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0588     Document Type: Article

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