The study, “A Three Year Study of High Cost Users of Health Care” was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It reviewed anonymized patient records for nearly 15 million Ontarians between 2009 and 2011 – making it the largest such survey completed to date and the first in Canada to evaluate an entire province’s health care costs at the individual patient level.
“We need to better understand what is driving these costs in order to find ways to lower them while improving the health of Ontario’s patients,” said Walter Wodchis, who is also a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
Full article at: U of T News