Health Care Expenditures Among Individuals With Chronic Psychotic Disorders in Ontario: An Analysis Over Time.

ABSTRACT: Chronic psychotic disorders are severe and disabling mental disorders associated with poor psychiatric and medical outcomes, and among the most costly mental disorders to treat. Understanding trends in aggregate health care expenditures over time, and respective drivers, can provide relevant insights for decision makers, namely around appropriate allocation of scarce resources within the health care sector. Using administrative health care times series data from Ontario, this analysis examined trends in aggregate public health care expenditures and activity from 2012 to 2019 among all individuals with a diagnosis of a chronic psychotic disorder. Total aggregate health care expenditures for individuals with a chronic psychotic disorder in Ontario increased at a moderate rate over this time

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012663 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature