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Published in: BMC Health Services Research 1/2008

Open Access 01-12-2008 | Meeting abstract

Improving case mix for description and funding in rehabilitation in France: additive model is better than tree-classification

Authors: Pierre Métral, N Ducret, A Patris, P Steunou

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Special Issue 1/2008

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Rehabilitation and post-acute geriatry is a large field with a large panel of hospitals in France (1800). The French specific classification Groupes Homogène de Journées (GHJ-280 groups), developed in 1996, is neither good enough for easy use in health politics nor for funding. A new case-mix model, based on the same medical dataset and on analytic cost data, has been developed with a very significant improvement in R2 for cost per day. …
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Title
Improving case mix for description and funding in rehabilitation in France: additive model is better than tree-classification
Authors
Pierre Métral
N Ducret
A Patris
P Steunou
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-A2

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