Journal article
Medication use and its impact on high-cost health care users among older adults: protocol for the population-based matched cohort HiCOSTT study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health interventions and policies for high-cost health care users (HCUs) who are older adults need to be informed by a better understanding of their multimorbidity and medication use. This study aims to determine the financial contribution of medications to HCU expenditures and explore whether potentially inappropriate prescribing is associated with incident HCU development.
METHODS: This is a protocol for a retrospective …
Authors
Lee J; Muratov S; Tarride J-E; Paterson JM; Thavorn K; Mbuagbaw L; Gomes T; Khuu W; Seow H; Thabane L
Journal
CMAJ Open, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. e44–e52
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
January 2021
DOI
10.9778/cmajo.20190196
ISSN
2291-0026