Effect of socio-demographic factors on the association between multimorbidity and healthcare costs: a population-based, retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the attributable costs of multimorbidity and assess whether the association between the level of multimorbidity and health system costs varies by socio-demographic factors in young (<65 years) and older (≥65 years) adults living in Ontario, Canada.

Design

A population-based, retrospective cohort study SETTING: The province of Ontario, Canada PARTICIPANTS: 6 639 089 Ontarians who were diagnosed with at least one of 16 selected medical conditions on 1 April 2009.

Main outcome measures

From the perspective of the publicly funded healthcare system, total annual healthcare costs were derived from linked provincial health administrative databases using a person-level costing method. We used generalised linear models to examine the association between

SUBMITTER: Thavorn K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640069 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature