Constructing a Measure of Private-pay Nursing Home Days

Medical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2018, Pages e26-e31

  Thomas, Kali S ^a,b   Silver, Benjamin ^a   Gozalo, Pedro L ^a   Dosa, David ^a,b   Grabowski, David C ^c   Makineni, Rajesh ^a,b   Mor, Vincent ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

financing; long term care; Medicaid; nursing homes; private pay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; MALE; PRIVATE SECTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PRIVATE SECTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85020277222     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000749     Document Type: Article

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