Effects of Race and Income on Mortality and Use of Services among Medicare Beneficiaries
- 12 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 335 (11) , 791-799
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199609123351106
Abstract
There are wide disparities between blacks and whites in the use of many Medicare services. We studied the effects of race and income on mortality and use of services.Keywords
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