Max Rady College of Medicine
Term: Pharmaceutical Users, High-Cost
Glossary Definition
Last Updated: 2008-03-11
Definition:
Individuals for whom annual expenditures for prescription medications fall in the top 5th percentile of annual prescription expenditures.
One of three mutually exclusive categories - Non-High Cost, Intermittent High-Cost and High-Cost Pharmaceutical Users.
Related concepts
Related terms
- Pharmaceutical User
- Pharmaceutical Users, Intermittent High-Cost
- Pharmaceutical Users, Non-High Cost
References
- Kozyrskyj A, Lix L, Dahl M, Soodeen R. High-cost Users of Pharmaceuticals: Who are They? Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2005. [Report] [Summary] (View)
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