National Trends and Geographic Variation in Availability of Home Health Care: 2002-2015.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on March 21, 2017

Authors

Yun Wang1,2, Erica C Leifheit-Limson3, Jonathan Fine4, Michelle M Pandolfi5, Yan Gao6, Fanglin Liu7, Sheila Eckenrode7, Judith H Lichtman2,3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
2: Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
3: Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
4: Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut.
5: Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut.
6: Department of Sociology, Graduate School, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.
7: Qualidigm, Wethersfield, Connecticut.

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