The Use and Cost of Health Services Prior to Death: A Comparison of the Medicare-Only and the Medicare-Medicaid Elderly Populations

Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Health

1990 • 819 citations

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society.

1988 • 581 citations

The Compression of Morbidity: Near or Far?

1989 • 335 citations

Morbidity and disability in older persons in the years prior to death.

1991 • 195 citations

Health Care Utilization in the Years Prior to Death

1987 • 158 citations

Medical Care in the Last Twelve Months of Life: The Relation between Age, Functional Status, and Medical Care Expenditures

1988 • 114 citations

The high cost of dying

1963 • 109 citations

Utilization and Costs of Medicare Services by Beneficiaries in Their Last Year of Life

1984 • 107 citations

Too Old for Health Care? Controversies in Medicine, Law, Economics, and Ethics

1992 • 40 citations

Trends and patterns in place of death for Medicare enrollees.

1990 • 35 citations

Longitudinal patterns of Medicare use by cause of death.

1989 • 26 citations

A study of the "crossover population": aged persons entitled to both Medicare and Medicaid.

1983 • 24 citations

The dually entitled elderly Medicare and Medicaid population living in the community.

1984 • 12 citations