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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2008;300(24):2843-2844.

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Chronically ill adults in the United States say they pay higher out-of-pocket costs, face more problems with coordination of care, and are subject to more medical errors than patients in 7 other developed countries, according to new research.

US patients with a chronic illness say they have higher out-of-pocket costs and more problems with coordination of care and medical errors than patients in 7 other developed countries.

The study, which was sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, a private, New York, NY–based foundation that supports health care research, is based on telephone interviews conducted in 2008 with 7500 adults living in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States. The respondents all had at least 1 of 7 chronic health conditions—hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lung problems, cancer, or depression—and all had had a recent hospitalization, major surgery, or serious episode . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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