Disability and Health Journal
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 117-124 , April 2010

Caregiver perceptions associated with risk of nursing home admission for people with multiple sclerosis

  • Robert J. Buchanan, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762.
    • ,
  • Dagmar Radin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
    • ,
  • Chunfeng Huang, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
    • ,
  • Li Zhu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, TX 77843, USA

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 Financial disclosure: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. This research was supported by a contract from the Health Care Delivery and Policy Research Program of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (HC 0043).

PII: S1936-6574(09)00070-3

doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2009.08.003

Disability and Health Journal
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 117-124 , April 2010

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