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From: Comparison of methods to identify long term care nursing home residence with administrative data

Fig. 1

Venn diagram illustrating overlap of the three methods with each other and with the gold standard of long term care (LTC) stays identified in Medicaid. Please note that the areas shown in the figure are not proportional to the numbers in each category. These analyses were done at the level of enrollee, determining whether the individual enrollee resided in a LTC nursing home for > 100 days in 2011. The analyses presented in Tables 2 and 3 are conducted at the episode level, comparing episodes in a LTC nursing home identified by the different methods. The results are similar with the two approaches

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