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Nursing Home Residence Confounds Gender Differences in Medicare Utilization: An Example of Simpson’s Paradox

BACKGROUND: Gender differences in health care utilization in older Americans may be confounded by nursing home residence. Medicare data contain several files that can be used to create a measure of nursing home residence, but prior work has not addressed which best account for potential confounding....

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Published in:Womens Health Issues
Main Authors: Kronman, Andrea C., Freund, Karen M., Hanchate, Amresh, Emanuel, Ezekiel J., Ash, Arlene S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471050/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20149970
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.016
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