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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Medical Expenditure Panel Survey"”.
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Parental Schooling And Child Health: Evidence From Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
… study applies bivariate probit models to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data set to explore the effects of parental schooling on the physical and mental health of child and the underlying mechanism of the transmission of these beneficial effects. Using the perceived physical and mental …
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Medication Expenditure and Resource Utilization Among Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders: Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
… the national prevalence and direct incremental expenditures of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD's) using the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.</p><p> Methods: A retrospective database analysis was conducted and individuals with MSD's (ICD-9-CM codes 274.00; 710.00-738.00) were …
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Direct Incremental Costs in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma in United States - An Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
… national prevalence and direct incremental expenditures in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma using 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.</p><p> Methods: COPD and asthma were identified using ICD-9 codes and were the main independent variables. Covariates …
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An examination of the effects of medicare part d on racial/ethnic disparities
… and Hispanic Medicare seniors from the 2002-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, this dissertation analyzes eight measures of access and utilization related to prescription medications. This dissertation applies the Institute of Medicine's definition of a racial/ethnic disparity, and adopts a …
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Analysis of Healthcare Coverage Using Data Mining Techniques
… modeling is based on the dataset retrieved from Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with 98,175 records in the original dataset. After pre-processing the data, including binning, cleaning, dealing with missing values, and balancing, it contains 26,932 records and 23 variables. We build 50 …
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Mental health policy outcomes: an examination of older adults' mental health service use, 2002-2012
… MHS use using a large, nationally-representative panel survey (the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Household Component, or MEPS-HC). We considered MHS use in the MEPS-HC for the period of 2002-2012, during which members of MEPS Panels 6-17 provided responses. This analysis revealed that rates …
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Racial Disparities in Self Reported Health and Health Care Utilization. Does Primary Care Matter?
… among Black adults. Data were from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) implemented by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Specifically, MEPS Panel 10 (2005-2006) and Panel 11 (2006-2007) data were used in the analyses. The final sample comprised of N=15,295 …
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Three Essays in Health Economics
… families with children was examined using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2001 to 2009. Out-of-pocket spending for most children was not affected by the recession but spending for children with special needs decreased during the recession.
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Factors Associated With the Provision of Coronary Heart Disease Preventive CareServices
… based on a sample of adults age 18-85 from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) who were identified with CHD risk or who had a CHD diagnosis.Variables from the MEPS and the Area Resource File (ARF) are used to test logistic regression models for dependent variables measuring primary and …
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Determinants of Care Seeking for Persons with Low Back and Neck Pain Treated By Physicians, Chiropractors or Physical Therapists
… low back pain and neck pain were drawn from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Panel 6 participants. Episodes of care and non-care were defined and the provider used during an episode was identified.Determinants of care seeking for low back pain included MSA status, insurance coverage, …
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CONCOMITANT USE OF BISPHOSPHONATES AND SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITORS AND INCREASED RISK OF OSTEOPOROTIC-RELATED FRACTURES: AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
… were performed using data from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Part D prescriptions claims data (2008-2010) to examine usage patterns of BPs and SSRIs/SNRIs for women aged ≥45 years and ≥65 years, respectively. For our second objective, a nested-case control …
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Racial Disparities in Adherence to Cardiovascular Medications among the Elderly in Medicare: Three Empirical Essays
… Using nationally representative data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey on white, black, and Hispanic Medicare seniors, this dissertation was an endeavor to: 1) evaluate the impact on these disparities of the introduction of Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit, in 2006, 2) …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… enrollees in the U.S. by using the data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Unlike traditional ranking scores, we use a voting ensemble approach, with four compeDDve base learners: forward and backward stepwise subset selections, LASSO and random forest. The selected top five driving …
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Approvals, Utilization, and Cost of Biologics for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
… </strong>In the retrospective analysis of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data from 2010-2021, the population includes RA patients diagnosed using International Classification of Disease (ICD-9 and ICD-10). We used descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and logistic regression. …
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Trends in Cost, Health Status and Functional Outcomes Among Adult and Pediatric Patients with Asthma: 2000-2009
… Very few studies have examined recent trends in medical expenditures, health status, and functional outcomes among patients with asthma. Objectives: To examine the level and changes in medical costs, health status and functional outcomes in adults and pediatrics with asthma and to provide …
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Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among People with Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
… of publically funded health care services and expenditures. Prescription drug costs are also one of the most significant expenses for those with disabilities and may impose an extensive financial burden on them. However, data on health care costs among them are sparse. Previous research has not …
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The Influence of Patient-Reported Provider Availability Factors on Nonurgent Emergency Department Use
… from a nationally‑representative longitudinal survey, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). The classification of ED visits as nonurgent was based on patient report using a method developed for this study. Patient‑perceived provider availability was based on patient report of how …
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Cost of Illness Study of Anxiety Disorders for the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States
… Data was collected from the 2009 and 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Cost components included in the analyses were direct medical costs (i.e. cost for inpatient visits, outpatient visits, emergency …
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Prevalence, Predictors and Healthcare Impact of Anticholinergic Medications Use in Elderly Dementia Patients
… cross-sectional study design and longitudinal panel design was conducted using the 2005-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, a nationally representative data on the community dwelling, non-institutionalized US population to determine the predictors and impact on HRQoL, …
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The Impact of Being Uninsured in the United States on Economic and Humanistic Outcomes: Results from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys
… using combined 2-year longitudinal data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (MEPS) from 2004-2008. A 1:1 nearest-neighbor-with-replacement case-control design (matching on age category, race, region, health status, average risk aversion, job loss to injury or illness, income category as a …
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