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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
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Special Issue 1/2008
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Excerpt
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. …