Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Harper O.W. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, James N. Weinstein, William B. Weeks*

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    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)249-251
    Number of pages3
    JournalJournal of general internal medicine
    Volume37
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 2022

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    This paper used propriety data provided by the Economic Innovation Group. The findings expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Economic Innovation Group. The Economic Innovation Group does not guarantee the reliability of, or necessarily agree with, the information provided herein. The Medicare fee-for-service reimbursement and mortality data used here were obtained from Dartmouth Atlas Data website, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, under award number UL1TR001086 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in part, by the National Institute of Aging, under award number U01AG046830. Mr. Wallace was funded by the US–France Fulbright Commission in Paris, France.

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