Reducing Nursing Home Use Through Community Long-Term Care: An Optimization Analysis Using Data from the National Channeling Demonstration

Vernon L. Greene, Ph.D., Mary E. Lovely, Ph.D., Mark D. Miller, M.S., and Jan I. Ondrich, Ph.D.

Syracuse University

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