The Quality of Health Data Obtained in a New Survey of Elderly Americans: A Validation Study of the Proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR)

The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey program that would collect health status indicators annually from large probability samples of Medicare beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use mail survey procedures with telephone follow-up of nonre...

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Published in:The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences Psychological sciences and social sciences, 1997-01, Vol.52B (1), p.S49-S58
Main Authors: Turner, Charles F., Smith, Timothy K., Fitterman, Leslye K., Reilly, Thomas, Pate, Kirk, Witt, Michael B., McBean, A. Marshall, Lessler, Judith T., Forsyth, Barbara H.
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