Issue Special Issue 2/2010
Patient Classification Systems International: 2010 Case Mix Conference
Content (24 Articles)
Using hospital discharge abstract data to identify incident breast cancer cases and assess quality of care
E J Yuen, D Z Louis, C Rabinowitz, V Maio, L Cisbani, R DePalma, R Grilli
Who is most likely to require a higher level of care: predicting risk of hospitalization
D Z Louis, M Robeson, K Herrera, V Maio, JS Gonnella, D Richardson, R Grilli
Health measurement for care management using the international classification of functioning codes
J Okochi, K Takamuku, T Takahashi
DRG, BSC and EBM: time to work with one another
S Ghaffari, M Abolhallaj, A Ghafouri
Advantages, disadvantages and feasibility of Pay-for-Quality programs in Belgium
P Van Herck, W Sermeus, L Annemans, D De Smedt, L Borgermans, J Heyrman, C Duchesnes, M Vanmeerbeek, R Remmen
ICD-11 revision: where are we now? Ontology-driven tools and the web platform
J Rodrigues
Determining the morbidity profile, health-service utilization and health-provider efficiency in the Rejang River Basin, Sarawak, based on TPC® data and the Johns Hopkins ACG® System
Andrew Kiyu, Peter FS Lee, Karen Kinder, Flora Ong, Noraziah Bt Aboo Bakar
The impact of introducing case mix on the efficiency of teaching hospitals in Malaysia
S M Aljunid, H Moshiri, R Amin
Making maintenance of the case-mix system user friendly
C Østerballe Pedersen
Key performance indicators - a tool to answer the questions, what do we get for our money? and how can we use this money even more efficiently?
M Bork Hansen
Invalid inpatient stays and their potential reimbursement
I Garcia Lema, T Silva-Costa, A Freitas
Hospital reimbursement and readmissions. Norway 2002, 2005 and 2008
S O Petersen
Processing costed inpatient episodes to cost weights for inlier equivalent separations: the ends should fit the means
C W Aisbett
Potentially preventable readmissions - narrowing identification of patients at risk of unplanned readmission
M Berlinguet, C Licoppe, K Mitchell, O Weiser
Introducing Pay-for-Performance within Hong Kong’s Public Hospitals
Koon Hung Lee, Steve Gillett
Utilization of clinical tools to understand health-care differences of the Discovery Health population
T Mosendane, A S Persadh, R Jabaar, B Ruff
The funding system and incentives in Portuguese hospitals
M Reis, C Costa, R Mendes, S Lopes
Using admission from the emergency room to improve predictions of resource use and length of stay for acute inpatient admissions in Ontario
M Perry, M Alshurafa
Patient classification in rehabilitation as a basis for performance-related payments
G Neubauer, J Ranneberg, A Wick
A simulation model to measure the impact of introducing new procedures in cardiology
M H Wilke, R Grube