Studies found that a small portion of the population spent the majority of health care
resources, and they highlighted the importance of predicting high-cost users in the health …

Background: Research from 2006 documented substantial variation in medication coverage
for residents across Canada. Since then, some provinces have implemented major …

Objectives To optimise planning of public health services, the impact of high-cost users
needs to be considered. However, most of the existing statistical models for costs do not …

Objective To measure the extent of multispecialty care fragmentation among outpatients
receiving specialist care and identify associated risk factors for fragmented care. Design A …

Nursing home residents often are poly-medicated, which increases their risks of receiving
potentially inappropriate medications. This problem has become a major public health issue …

Importance In OECD countries, pharmaceutical spending reached around 800 billion USD
in 2013, accounting for about 20% of total spending in the retail sector. Pharmaceutical …

Charging according to disease is an important way to effectively promote the reform of
medical insurance mechanism, reasonably allocate medical resources and reduce the …

Background Potentially inappropriate medicines (PIM), ie medicines in which the potential
harms may outweigh the benefits, use may be associated with eg hospitalization, outpatient …

Purpose Post-injury health service utilization (HSU) contributes to injury outcomes, but
limited studies investigated their relationship. This study aims to group injured patients in …

Background and Objectives Limited information is available regarding the distribution of
increasing pharmaceutical expenditures within large representative samples of national …