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Data on Home Health Care Services in the United States: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Amy B. Bernstein
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment
Jill F. Bernstein
Affiliation:
U.S. General Accounting Office

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