Mortality and Hospitalizations for Dually Enrolled and Nondually Enrolled Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years or Older, 2004 to 2017

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 323, Issue 10, 2020, Pages 961-969

  Wadhera, Rishi K ^a   Wang, Yun ^a,b   Figueroa, Jose F ^a,b   Dominici, Francesca ^b   Yeh, Robert W ^a   Joynt Maddox, Karen E ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; RACE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL FEE; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85081609987     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.1021     Document Type: Article

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