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The impact of marital status on health care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries

To explain prior literature showing that married Medicare beneficiaries achieve better health outcomes at half the per person cost of single beneficiaries, we examined different patterns of healthcare utilization as a potential driver. Using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data, we so...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Kiran Raj, Yang, Fan, Cagney, Kathleen A., Smieliauskas, Fabrice, Meltzer, David O., Ruhnke, Gregory W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6709281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30896632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000014871