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Abstract
A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.
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Classification
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- DRG
- DRGs
- Diagnosis Related Group
- Diagnosis-Related Group
- Diagnostic-Related Group
- Group, Diagnostic-Related
- Groups, Diagnostic-Related
- Diagnosis Related Groups
- Diagnostic Related Group
- Diagnostic-Related Groups
- Group, Diagnosis Related
- Group, Diagnosis-Related
- Group, Diagnostic Related
- Groups, Diagnosis Related
- Groups, Diagnosis-Related
- Groups, Diagnostic Related
- Related Group, Diagnosis
- Related Groups, Diagnosis
- Case Mix
- Case Mixes
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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History Note
92; was DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS 1986-91; was CASE MIX see under COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS 1982-85; DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS was see CASE MIX 1982-85
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- Costs and Cost Analysis (1966-1985)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Diagnosis-Related Groups. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003953. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003953
- Diagnosis-Related Groups. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group
- Diagnosis-Related Groups. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1208158