Mental Health Care Use Among Children and Adolescents With High Health Care Costs in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Research on patients with high health care costs has examined mainly adults, with little focus on mental health care use.

Objective

To examine the characteristics and costs of children and adolescents with high health care costs who use mostly mental health care and whether and why they persist in the high-cost state.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based, retrospective cohort study used health care records from Ontario, Canada, on all children and adolescents (age 0-17 years) covered under a universal health care system from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2019. All children and adolescents in and above the 90th percentile of the cost distribution in 2012 for whom costs related to mental health care accounted for 50% or more of their cos

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10182426 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature