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Diagnosis Related Groups in Europe

Uses and Perspectives

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Mercè Casas

    1. IASIST S. A., Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Miriam M. Wiley

    1. Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Targeting Hospital Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Hospital Information Systems in Europe: Trends Towards Uniformity in Patient Record Summaries

      • Francis H. Roger France
      Pages 3-16

    3. DRGs: Origin and Dissemination Throughout Europe

      • Jean-Marie Rodrigues
      Pages 17-29

    4. DRG Evolution

      • Thomas E. McGuire
      Pages 30-45

    5. DRGs: How Well Do They Define Hospital Products in Europe?

      • Hugh F. Sanderson
      Pages 46-60

  3. Using Case-Mix Measures in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Producing DRG Statistics at the European Level: Lessons from the EURODRG Project

      • Mercè Casas, Rosa TomĂ s
      Pages 63-80

    3. Training and Awareness: The Key to Successful Use of DRGs

      • Linda Jenkins
      Pages 81-96

    4. Outcomes Management: The Italian Case-Mix Project

      • Francesco Taroni, Daniel Z. Louis, Elaine J. Yuen
      Pages 97-108

  4. Hospital Accounting and Resource Allocation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Management Accounting in Hospitals: Lessons from Manufacturing

      • David W. Young, Leslie K. Pearlman
      Pages 111-137

    3. Costing Hospital Case-Mix: The European Experience

      • Miriam M. Wiley
      Pages 138-154

    4. Using Case Mix for Resource Allocation

      • James C. Vertrees, Kenneth G. Manton
      Pages 155-172

    5. Using DRGs to Fund Hospitals in Portugal: An Evaluation of the Experience

      • Margarida E. Bentes, Joao A. Urbano, Maria Do Carmo Carvalho, Maria S. Tranquada
      Pages 173-192

    6. Hospital Groups and Case-Mix Measurement for Resource Allocation and Payment

      • Pere Ibern, James C. Vertrees, Kenneth G. Manton, Max A. Woodbury
      Pages 193-207
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When John Thompson and I first began talking about finding a way to measure and cost the output of hospitals in the 1960s. we really had no concept of the need for this kind of result. In fact. if we had listened to others in the health services research community. we would rrever have begun or persisted in the task. But it seemed important to us to begin to understand what up until then seemed unexplainable - the rather strange cost behavior of hospitals. We had the benefit of Professor Martin Feld­ stein's observation that case-mix was certainly an important factor. but we had literally no guidance on how to make some sense out of the very large number of illnesses that beset the human race. and the very large number of different processes that obtain in our hospitals as they attempt to cope with those illnesses. We were fortunate to find a small number of curious and capable graduate students to join us in this effort. for without them we would not have had a chance of success. While many contrib­ uted to the ultimate outcome. it is important to single out Ronald E. Mills. Richard F. Averill. Youngsoo Shin. and Jean L. Freeman for their efforts over many years. The diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) constitute a way of identifying the normal output of hospitals in a consistent and exhaustive manner.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IASIST S. A., Barcelona, Spain

    Mercè Casas

  • Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Miriam M. Wiley

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