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Characterizing the Senior High Cost User (HCU) in Ontario

NCT02815930 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 700000

Last updated 2020-02-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

High cost users (HCUs) are a small group of patients who use a disproportionate amount of health care resources. This study is a retrospective population-based matched cohort analysis of newly incident senior High Cost Users (HCUs) defined as Ontarians aged 66 years or older in the top 5% of healthcare expenditure users in fiscal year 2013 (FY2013). The study objectives are to characterize and contrast Ontario senior HCUs to non-HCUs based on their demographics, co-morbidities, medication use, health service utilization, healthcare expenditures, medication costs and clinical outcomes, and to determine the relative contribution of medications to senior HCUs expenditures

Conditions

  • Senior High Cost Users (HCU)

Interventions

OTHER

HCU Status

Total healthcare expenditures in the top 5% of Ontarians

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Research Institute of St. Joseph's Hamilton

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • McMaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Justin Lee, BScPhm, ACPR, MD, FRCPC · McMaster University

Eligibility

Min Age
66 Years
Max Age
105 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2020-12-31

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