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Legend: = Applied Session, = Theme Session, = Presenter, Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers = “S”
Washington State Convention & Trade Center = “CC”, Grand Hyatt Seattle = “H”

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373 Applied Session Theme Session Wed, 8/9/06, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-603
Medical Expenditures: Data Collection, Estimation, and Evaluations - Topic Contributed - Papers
Section on Survey Research Methods, Section on Health Policy Statistics, Biometrics Section, ENAR
Organizer(s): Trena Ezzati-Rice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Chair(s): Steven B. Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     8:35 AM   Evaluation of the Completeness of Household Reports of Medical Expenditures for Visits to Physician OfficesSteven R. Machlin, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Diana Wobus, Westat; David Kashihara, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     8:55 AM   Evaluation of the Accuracy of Household Reports of Medical Expenditures for Visits to Physician OfficesSteven R. Machlin, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; David Kashihara, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Diana Wobus, Westat
     9:15 AM   The Impact of Medical Expenditure Predictors in MEPS Nonresponse AdjustmentsLap-Ming Wun, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Trena Ezzati-Rice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Steven B. Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; William Yu, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     9:35 AM   Evaluation of Expenditure Estimates When Including a High-Expenditure Predictor in Nonresponse AdjustmentsLap-Ming Wun, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Steven B. Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Trena Ezzati-Rice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; William Yu, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     9:55 AM   Approximation of Skewed Health Care Expenditure Distribution Using a Mixture ModelWilliam Yu, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     10:15 AM   Floor Discussion
 

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