Similarly, Medicaid beneficiaries identified as asthmatics and on ICS therapy were selected as the unexposed population with the only difference being that these patients were not on concurrent statin therapy.
According to Kang, functional health status was selected as CMS's outcome measure of choice because it was of greatest interest to Medicare beneficiaries [ 24].
Kean was selected as captain.
Among the 1,000,000 beneficiaries in the LHID 2005, 23,594 COPD cases were identified, and 47,188 non-COPD subjects matched for age, gender, and timing of entering the LHID 2005 were selected as the control group.
Interventions involving the positioning of the CHW within the beneficiary community: through the CHW being explicitly selected by beneficiary community and the CHW being positioned as a role model within the beneficiary community.
UNIQLO's "Clothes for Smiles" programme has selected UNICEF as a beneficiary, committing US$55 million over 5 years to education programmes in three Asian countries Bangladesh, China and the Philippines as part of UNICEF's Schools for Asia Initiative, as well as in Serbia.
It is difficult to get the criteria used in selecting beneficiaries as this differs from district to district e.g. in some districts they say the selection is done by MAFS and UNICEF, while in other districts they say the number of members of beneficiaries is the criterion used.
LHID 2000 is a data set released by the NHRI that contains all original claims data for 1 million randomly selected beneficiaries in the 2000 Registry of Beneficiaries.
They all gathered in Wichita and selected their beneficiaries.
We examined DMARD use during 2001 to 2006 in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), a longitudinal US survey of randomly selected Medicare beneficiaries.
