Who Are the High-Cost Users? A Method for Person-Centred Attribution of Health Care Spending.

OBJECTIVE:To develop person-centered episodes of care (PCE) for community-dwelling individuals in the top fifth percentile of Ontario health care expenditures in order to: (1) describe the main clinical groupings for spending; and (2) identify patterns of spending by health sector (e.g. acute care,...

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Main Authors: Sara J T Guilcher, Susan E Bronskill, Jun Guan, Walter P Wodchis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4777563?pdf=render