Senior high-cost healthcare users' resource utilization and outcomes: a protocol of a retrospective matched cohort study in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Senior high-cost users (HCUs) are estimated to represent 60% of all HCUs in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. To improve our understanding of individual and health system characteristics related to senior HCUs, we will examine incident senior HCUs to determine their incremental healthcare utilisation and costs, characteristics of index hospitalisation episodes, mortality and their regional variation across Ontario.

Methods and analysis

A retrospective, population-based cohort study using administrative healthcare records will be used. Incident senior HCUs will be defined as Ontarians aged ≥66 years who were in the top 5% of healthcare cost users during fiscal year 2013 but not during fiscal year 2012. Each HCU will be matched to three non-HCUs by age, se

SUBMITTER: Muratov S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770942 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature