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Published in: BMC Health Services Research 1/2008

Open Access 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 | Special Issue 1/2008

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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. …
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Title
First German-Austrian case-mix comparison with real life data
Authors
Michael Wilke
Klemens Haslinger
Mike Schenker
Publication date
01-12-2008
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Health Services Research / Issue Special Issue 1/2008
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-S1-A13

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