Research Officer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Principal Investigator, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Institute for Better Health; Professor, Trillium Health Partners, Toronto, ON.
Healthc Policy. 2021 Feb;16(3):51-66. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2021.26433.
Healthcare spending is concentrated, with a minority of the population accounting for the majority of healthcare costs.
The authors modelled the impact of high resource user (HRU) prevention strategies within five years using the validated High Resource User Population Risk Tool.
The authors estimated 758,000 new HRUs in Ontario from 2013-2014 to 2018-2019, resulting in $16.20 billion in healthcare costs (Canadian dollars 2016). The prevention approach that had the largest reduction in HRUs was targeting health-risk behaviours.
This study demonstrates the use of a policy tool by decision makers to support prevention approaches that consider the impact on HRUs and estimated healthcare costs.
医疗保健支出集中，少数人占了大部分医疗保健费用。
作者使用经过验证的高资源用户人群风险工具，在五年内对高资源用户（HRU）预防策略的影响进行建模。
作者估计，从 2013-2014 年到 2018-2019 年，安大略省将有 75.8 万新的 HRU，导致医疗保健费用为 162 亿加元（2016 年加元）。预防 HRU 数量最多的方法是针对健康风险行为。
本研究展示了决策者使用政策工具来支持预防方法，这些方法考虑了对 HRU 和估计的医疗保健成本的影响。
