Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 105-113 , March 2010

Nursing Home Residence Confounds Gender Differences in Medicare Utilization: An Example of Simpson's Paradox

  • Andrea C. Kronman, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health and Health Care Research Units, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Andrea C. Kronman, MD, MSc, Women's Health Unit, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 470, Boston, MA 02118; Phone: 617-638-8036; Fax: 617-638-8096.
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  • Karen M. Freund, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health and Health Care Research Units, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Amresh Hanchate, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health and Health Care Research Units, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Arlene S. Ash, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health and Health Care Research Units, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 26 December 2007 ,Revised 1 August 2009 ,Accepted 21 November 2009.

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 Funded by the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) K12-43444, with support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

PII: S1049-3867(09)00149-2

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.016

Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 105-113 , March 2010

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