Alternative Risk-Adjustment Approaches to Assessing the Quality of Home Health Care: Final Report

Christopher M. Murtaugh, Ph.D., Timothy R. Peng, Ph.D., Gil A. Maduro, Ph.D., Elisabeth Simantov, Ph.D., and Thomas E. Bow, M.A., M.S.W.

Center for Home Care Policy and Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

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