Health care utilization and costs among coordinated care patients in Southeastern Ontario: A difference-in-differences study of a double propensity score-matched cohort
Homecare use significantly increased for enrollees versus comparators, indicating specific priority areas of Ontario CCPs were met. However, no reductions were shown for other health system performance indicators. We also showed increased 7-day primary care follow-up visits for community care centre-recruited patients, but not for hospital-recruited patients. Decision-makers may wish to target patients who are less advanced in their chronic disease trajectory.
Authors
- Walter P. Wodchis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2494-7031)
- Elizabeth Hore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4100-5964)
- Catherine W. Donnelly
- Di McIntyre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6319-4111)
- Julia Swedak
- Tim Tenbensel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7832-3318)
- Yu Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-8248)
- Luke Mondor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6902-1390)
- Amy Wolfe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5037-5030)
- M. Spinks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7700-8995)
- Michael Green (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5852-0143)
- Ana Johnson
Institutions
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Queen's University (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
- Published
- 2024-11-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/13558196241290996
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Queen's University
- Trillium Health Partners Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research