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Published in: BMC Health Services Research 1/2011

Open Access 01-12-2011 | Meeting abstract

Using hospital readmission rates to track the quality of care in public hospitals in Singapore

Authors: E Lim, N Matthew, W Mok, S Chowdhury, D Lee

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Special Issue 1/2011

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Singapore introduced Casemix-based financing for inpatient and day-surgery cases in the public sector in 1999. The application of Casemix has since been extended beyond financing to fields such as benchmarking, clinical quality and utilization review. Casemix data has been invaluable in enabling the tracking and better understanding of quality of care of healthcare providers, as well as providing a view to better managing them. …
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Metadata
Title
Using hospital readmission rates to track the quality of care in public hospitals in Singapore
Authors
E Lim
N Matthew
W Mok
S Chowdhury
D Lee
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Health Services Research / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-S1-A16

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