In our study, beneficiaries who initiated with CCBs were frailer than beneficiaries who initiated with other antihypertensives.
To be eligible for the study, beneficiaries had to be continuously enrolled in Medicare fee-for-service Parts A and B for >365 days before and including the latest month of continuous enrollment in the calendar year.
In this retrospective cohort study, beneficiaries aged 65 and older with diabetes who were continuously enrolled and alive from 2004 to 2006 were identified from a 5% random US Medicare sample, the Medicare Chronic Condition Warehouse dataset [ 16][ 17].
Twyeafur and Hafiz (2012) conducted a study measuring beneficiaries' attitudes towards the microcredit program among beneficiaries for more than three years.
According to the VentureOne study, the beneficiaries are biotechnology companies, in which investment rose 140percentt in the third quarter over the previous quarter and medical and health companies, which had a 70percentt jump.
We conducted a cohort study of beneficiaries of Medicare.
The participants of this study were beneficiaries of National Health Insurance NHII) of Chiba City.
The respondents included in this study were beneficiaries in baseline cohorts I, II, and III; the data sets represented survey results for 1998, 1999, and 2000, respectively.
We restricted our study to beneficiaries of Medicare fee for service health insurance at hospitals with more than 25 index admissions during the study period, so conclusions drawn from this population might not apply to others such as younger patients, patients admitted with different conditions, or patients at the smallest hospitals.
Qualitative field work, conducted in villages of four Community Councils in the districts of Mafeteng and Leribe, collected information using participatory methods and in-depth case studies on beneficiary perceptions of the programme impact on household decision-making, community dynamics and social networks.
