Costs and Delivery of Health Services to Older Americans: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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Page 612 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 457 - In a joint effort, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Page 189 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 188 - Reliability of the Estimates. Since the estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same schedules, instructions and enumerators.
Page 188 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, of the variations that occur by chance because a sample rather than the whole of the population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the standard error also partially measures the effect of response and enumeration errors, but it does not measure as such, any systematic biases in the data.
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Page 567 - ... the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness of which they are capable.
Page 182 - There is a lifetime limit of 190 days of covered services in psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatric care in general hospitals, however, does not count against the 190-day lifetime limit. Statistical study will be undertaken to determine the number of persons who exhaust these benefits, the number and extent of psychiatric services in general hospitals, and emerging trends in this area. REPORTING...