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01-12-2008 | Meeting abstract
First German-Austrian case-mix comparison with real life data
Authors:
Michael Wilke, Klemens Haslinger, Mike Schenker
Published in:
BMC Health Services Research
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Special Issue 1/2008
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Excerpt
Many countries use a case-mix system for funding healthcare. So far, comparisons between the systems have been performed whenever people in a country were thinking about introducing a case-mix system in their respective country. Moreover, there are also other reasons. Especially when countries share borders, it is often the case that citizens also share healthcare services. Germany is directly adjacent to Austria and, therefore, we conducted a study that compares the German G-DRG system with the Austrian LKF system in order to find out where the systems differ and where they are similar. …