Underinsurance and Mortality: The National Medical Expenditure Survey Cohort.211 Final Narrative Progress Report. Abstract, Executive Summary and Final Report

摘要

Proportional hazards survival analyses were performed to assess mortality as a211u001efunction of health insurance status using data from the 1987 National Medical 211u001eExpenditure Survey (NMES), a large representative cohort of US civilian 211u001epopulation. Deaths through 1992 were ascertained by linkage to the National Death 211u001eIndex (NDI). The NMES recorded a wide range of access to care variables including 211u001esociodemographics, self-rated health, smoking status, obesity, identification of 211u001ea personal physician, and health care utilization and expenditures which allowed 211u001eadjustment for potential confounding and effect modification.