Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients' Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Sep;33(9):1433-1435. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4478-7.
No abstract available

Keywords: Medicare; health economics; health services research.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Community Health Planning* / methods
  • Community Health Planning* / statistics & numerical data
  • Demography
  • Health Care Costs
  • Health Services Needs and Demand
  • Healthcare Disparities* / economics
  • Healthcare Disparities* / ethnology
  • Humans
  • Medicare / economics
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States