High-cost health care users in Ontario, Canada: Demographic, socio-economic, and health status characteristics

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rosella, Laura C ^a,b,c   Fitzpatrick, Tiffany ^c   Wodchis, Walter P ^b,d,e   Calzavara, Andrew ^b   Manson, Heather ^a,c   Goel, Vivek ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian community health survey; Health care utilization; High cost users; Population perspective; Upstream determinants

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO;

EID: 84920830612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0532-2     Document Type: Article

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