Mary Beth Landrum

Overview

Biostatistician and health policy researcher at Harvard Medical School (Department of Health Care Policy). Works on Medicare quality and outcomes measurement. Co-authored the Chernew-Cutler series on disability-free life expectancy trends in the U.S. elderly population using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.

Key Contributions / Features

• Co-author of Chernew et al. (2016) and Cutler, Ghosh, and Landrum (2014) on compression of morbidity in the U.S. elderly.
• Methodological work on measuring and attributing disability using the MCBS, including cause-specific disability decompositions.

Related

• David Cutler
• Michael Chernew
• Kaushik Ghosh
• Morbidity-Mortality Distinction

Sources

• Chernew et al. 2016 — Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy in the U.S. Elderly Population
• Cutler, Ghosh, and Landrum 2013 — Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity in the Elderly U.S. Population