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Comparative Study
. 2018 Jan 23;137(4):408-410.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030128. Epub 2017 Nov 13.

Burden of Catastrophic Health Expenditures for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Among Uninsured in the United States

Rohan Khera  1 , Jonathan C Hong  2 , Anshul Saxena  3 , Alejandro Arrieta  4 , Salim S Virani  5 , Ron Blankstein  6 , James A de Lemos  1 , Harlan M Krumholz  7 , Khurram Nasir  8
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Comparative Study

Burden of Catastrophic Health Expenditures for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Among Uninsured in the United States

Rohan Khera et al. Circulation. .
No abstract available

Keywords: health expenditures; medically uninsured; myocardial infarction; stroke.

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(A) Gamma distribution of income across the four income quartiles. (B) Rates of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) with different cut-points for the defining CHE based on the ratio of hospitalizations charges to post-subsistence incomes.
Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Gamma distribution of income across the four income quartiles. (B) Rates of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) with different cut-points for the defining CHE based on the ratio of hospitalizations charges to post-subsistence incomes.
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