Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
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Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.1.193