Journal article
Managing High‐Cost Healthcare Users: The International Search for Effective Evidence‐Supported Strategies
Abstract
High-cost healthcare users (HCUs) are a small proportion of the population who use a disproportionate amount of healthcare resources. Although the phenomenon occurs across the entire age spectrum, older adults represent the majority of HCUs. HCUs have drawn increasing attention internationally from clinicians, health policy-makers, and government administrators. Many experts have suggested that the short- and long-term sustainability of the …
Authors
Lee JY; Muratov S; Tarride J; Holbrook AM
Journal
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 1002–1008
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
May 2018
DOI
10.1111/jgs.15257
ISSN
0002-8614