Background: Most health care spending is concentrated within a small group of high-cost
health care users. To inform health policies, we examined the characteristics of index …

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 …

Background Senior high cost health care users (HCU) are a priority for many governments.
Little research has addressed regional variation of HCU incidence and outcomes, especially …

Background: Few studies have categorized high-cost patients (defined by accumulated
health care spending above a predetermined percentile) into distinctive groups for which …

Objectives To describe healthcare use and spending before and on becoming a new
(incident) senior high-cost user (HCU) compared with senior non-HCUs; to estimate the …

Background A small proportion of patients account for the majority of health care spending.
We used detailed clinical and administrative data to explore clinical characteristics, patterns …

Background Homebound older adults have complex social, medical, and financial needs,
but little is known about their healthcare utilization and spending. Objective To characterize …

Background A minority of individuals use a large portion of health system resources,
incurring considerable costs, especially in acute-care hospitals where a significant …

BACKGROUND Efforts to curb healthcare spending have included interventions that target
frequently hospitalized individuals. It is unclear the extent to which the most frequently …

Objective Two-thirds of the economic resources in Norwegian hospitals are used on 10% of
the patients. Most of these high-cost patients are older adults, which experience more …