Diagnosis Related Groups – Hospital Performance and Financing Impact
Diagnosis Related Groups – Hospital Performance and Financing Impact
Author(s): Diana PăunSubject(s): Business Economy / Management, Health and medicine and law, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Diagnosis Related Groups; DRG; hospitals; performance information;
Summary/Abstract: DRG is a system of patients classification based on the diagnostic, procedures and other clinical information which offers the possibility of a correlation between the type of cases that are trated by the hospital ( the index of cases complexity – IMC ) and the costs. Diagnostic groups have two main characteristics: clinical homogeneity – in a particular DRG the cases are clinicaly similar, without being identical and costs homogeneity – each DRG contains cases that need the same resources. […]
Journal: Revista de Management Comparat Internațional
- Issue Year: 10/2009
- Issue No: S2
- Page Range: 1113-1116
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English