Medicare Part D and nursing home residents.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on July 01, 2007

Authors

David G Stevenson1, Haiden A Huskamp, Nancy L Keating, Joseph P Newhouse

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. stevenson@hcp.med.harvard.edu

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