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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