Andrew Costa, University of Toronto

Research

Delphi Health Human Resources Long-Term Care Nursing Homes Older Adults Physician Standards Census Level Clinical Data Chronic Disease And Symptom Management

Latest papers

Paying for home care: a cross-sectional study of participants of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
BMC Health Services Research · 2025 · senior author
Short-term mortality and palliative care use after delayed hospital discharge: a population-based retrospective cohort study
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care · 2024
Regional variation in healthcare spending and mortality among senior high-cost healthcare users in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective matched cohort study
BMC Geriatrics · 2018

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Older Adults' Hospital Admissions for Unmet Community Support Needs
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Canadian Dementia Health System Performance Team
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,074,944
A National Study on the Health Impacts and Experience of Family Caregiving for Canadians Living with Dementia
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$573,750

All 6 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Paying for home care: a cross-sectional study of participants of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Jones A, Lee J, Schumacher C, Sultan H, Mayhew A, Watt J, McArthur C, Tannahill-Wade M, Holyoke P, Bronskill S

BMC Health Services Research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-12975-4

02

Short-term mortality and palliative care use after delayed hospital discharge: a population-based retrospective cohort study

Jones A, Lapointe-Shaw L, Brown K, Babe G, Hillmer M, Costa A, Stall N, Quinn K

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care20242 citations

DOI: 10.1136/spcare-2023-004647

03

Regional variation in healthcare spending and mortality among senior high-cost healthcare users in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective matched cohort study

Muratov S, Lee J, Holbrook A, Costa A, Paterson JM, Guertin JR, Mbuagbaw L, Gomes T, Khuu W, Tarride J-E

BMC Geriatrics201817 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12877-018-0952-7 PMID: W2899304521

Older Adults' Hospital Admissions for Unmet Community Support Needs

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren; Gopalkrishnan, Rahul; Jones, Aaron T; Razak, Fahad; Roberts, Surain B; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Ageing; Alternative Level Of Care; Home And Community Care; Hospital Crowding; Older Adults; Social Admissions; Transitions Of Care

$100,000

Canadian Dementia Health System Performance Team

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Team Grant: CCNA Phase III: Research Teams

Principal investigators: Bronskill, Susan E; Jones, Aaron T; Kirkham, Julia; Kosteniuk, Julie G; Maxwell, Colleen J; Seitz, Dallas P

Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease & Other Dementias; Cross-Provincial; Health Administrative Data; Health Policy; Health Services Research; Population-Based Analysis; Quality Of Care; Quality Of Life; Quality Reporting; Secondary Prevention & Treatment

$1,074,944

A National Study on the Health Impacts and Experience of Family Caregiving for Canadians Living with Dementia

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stall, Nathan M; Armstrong, Joshua J; Gruneir, Andrea; Lix, Lisa M; Rochon, Paula A; Saragosa, Marianne; Sivananthan, Saskia N

Keywords: Caregiving; Dementia

$573,750

Establishing Optimal Medical Care Provider Commitment in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr:Policy Res. for Health Sys. Transf.- Canadian Healthcare Workforce

Principal investigators: Stall, Nathan M; Quail, Patrick B; Costa, Andrew P; Savage, Rachel

Keywords: Delphi; Health Human Resources; Long-Term Care; Nursing Homes; Older Adults; Physician Standards

$149,879

Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Care Team Model: Providing a rigorous evidence base to inform integrated health care policy

SupervisorCIHR2019Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Central Canada 2 year

Principal investigators: Hogeveen, Sophie E

Keywords: Community Support Services; Community-Based Health Services; Evaluation; Home Care; Integrated Care; Neighbourhood Care Team Model; Population Health

$108,500

Establishing a Research and Practice Collaboration for the Evaluation of Emergency Department Avoidance Interventions in Home Care

Nominated PICIHR2014Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Costa, Andrew P; Bell, Chaim M; Bronskill, Susan E

Keywords: Census Level Clinical Data; Chronic Disease And Symptom Management; Clinical Epidemiology; Emergency Department; Emergency Department Avoidance; Frail Elderly; Health Services Evaluation; Health Services Research; Home Care

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Aaron Jones and Andrew Costa: 103 shared papers
Justin Lee and Justin Lee: 59 shared papers
J Michael Paterson and Tara Gomes: 45 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Lawrence Mbuagbaw: 23 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Lawrence Mbuagbaw: 20 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Jean-Eric Tarride: 19 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Aaron Jones: 18 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Jean-Eric Tarride: 16 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Justin Lee: 16 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Justin Lee: 16 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and J Michael Paterson: 16 shared papers
Michael Hillmer and Michael Hillmer: 15 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and J Michael Paterson: 13 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Connie Schumacher: 11 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Connie Schumacher: 11 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Justin Lee: 11 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Justin Lee: 11 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Aaron Jones: 10 shared papers
Sergei Muratov and Jean-Eric Tarride: 9 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Lawrence Mbuagbaw: 8 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 8 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 7 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Sergei Muratov: 7 shared papers
Anne Marie Holbrook and Tara Gomes: 7 shared papers
Sergei Muratov and Justin Lee: 7 shared papers
Justin Lee and Caitlin McArthur: 6 shared papers
Justin Lee and Caitlin McArthur: 6 shared papers
J Michael Paterson and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 6 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Aaron Jones: 4 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Jennifer Watt: 3 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Kieran Quinn: 3 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Andrew Costa: 3 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Caitlin McArthur: 3 shared papers
Sergei Muratov and Tara Gomes: 3 shared papers
Nathan Stall and Kieran Quinn: 3 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Andrew Costa: 2 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Nathan Stall: 2 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Michael Hillmer: 2 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Michael Hillmer: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Susan Bronskill: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Jennifer Watt: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Nathan Stall: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Michael Hillmer: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Michael Hillmer: 2 shared papers
Andrew Costa and Aaron Jones: 2 shared papers
Jennifer Watt and Connie Schumacher: 2 shared papers
Aaron Jones and Susan Bronskill: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Kieran Quinn: 1 shared paper
Anne Marie Holbrook and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Sergei Muratov and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Lawrence Mbuagbaw and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Justin Lee and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Justin Lee and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
J Michael Paterson and Andrew Costa: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Susan Bronskill: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Tara Gomes: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Jennifer Watt: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Nathan Stall: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Michael Hillmer: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Kieran Quinn: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Michael Hillmer: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Caitlin McArthur: 1 shared paper
Andrew Costa and Connie Schumacher: 1 shared paper

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1 shared papers, latest 2018

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Delphi Dear Professor Costa, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Paying for home care: a cross-sectional study of participants of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging" (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Establishing Optimal Medical Care Provider Commitment in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]