Medication use and its impact on high-cost health care users among older adults: protocol for the population-based matched cohort HiCOSTT study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health interventions and policies for high-cost health care users (HCUs) who are older adults need to be informed by a better understanding of their multimorbidity and medication use. This study aims to determine the financial contribution of medications to HCU expenditures and explore whether potentially inappropriate prescribing is associated with incident HCU development.

Methods

This is a protocol for a retrospective population-based matched cohort analysis of incident older adult HCUs (those with the highest 5% of costs and 66 years of age or older) in Ontario during fiscal year 2013. We will obtain person-level data for the index year and year before HCU status from health administrative databases and match each HCU to 3 non-HCUs based on age, sex and geogra

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843076 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature