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By the Playbook staff
Marit Tanke, MD, PhD, a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow, led a research project to analyze high-need, high-cost patients across four countries — the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany.
What did she learn? The US is not the only country with a high proportion of health care spending concentrated in a small number of patients.
In this video lecture, she walks us through her research — her methodology, how costly these patients are, who these patients are, and how they use health care. Browse the clips below, or scroll down to watch her 14-minute presentation in its entirety.
Introduction and Methodology (Part 1 of 5)
How Costly Are These Patients? (Part 2 of 5)
Who are these patients? What are their demographic and clinical characteristics? (Part 3 of 5)
How do these patients use health care? (Part 4 of 5)
What do we learn from a cross-country comparison? (Part 5 of 5)
