Financial implications of the continuity of primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study was to assess the financial implications of the continuity of care, for patients with high care needs, by examining the cost of government-funded health care services in British Columbia, Canada.

Methods

Using British Columbia Ministry of Health administrative databases for fiscal year 2010-2011 and generalized linear models, we estimated cost ratios for 10 cost-related predictor variables, including patients' attachment to the practice. Patients were selected and divided into groups on the basis of their Resource Utilization Band (RUB) and placement in provincial registries for 8 chronic conditions (1,619,941 patients). The final dataset included all high- and very-high-care-needs patients in British Columbia (ie, RUB categories 4 and

SUBMITTER: Hollander MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4315369 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature