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SUBMITTER: Schumacher JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2699916 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schumacher Jessica R JR Smith Maureen A MA Liou Jinn-Ing JI Pandhi Nancy N
Health services research 20090305 3
<h4>Objective</h4>To assess whether a husband's Medicare transition leads to insurance disruptions for his wife that impact her perceived access to care, health care utilization, or health status.<h4>Data sources/study setting</h4>Respondents were married women under age 65 from the 2003-2005 round of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (N=655).<h4>Study design</h4>Instrumental variable (IV) linear and IV-probit analyses provided unbiased estimates of the effect of an insurance disruption on study ...[more]