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Term: Pharmaceutical Users, Intermittent High-Cost
Glossary Definition
Last Updated: 2008-03-11
Definition:
Individuals with high prescription expenditures in one year, and sporadic or intermittent high expenditures in previous years.
For example, individuals for whom annual expenditures for prescription medications exceeded the 95th percentile in year
t
, but did not exceed the 95th percentile in each of the previous
x
years.
One of three mutually exclusive categories - Non-High Cost, Intermittent High-Cost and High-Cost Pharmaceutical Users.
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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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