Issue Special Issue 1/2008
Patient Classification Systems International: 2008 Case Mix Conference
Content (24 Articles)
Clinical pathways at Norwegian hospitals 2003–2007. A general overview and special focus on cerebral infarction
Stein Østerlund Petersen, Ola Kindseth
Treatment- and diagnosis-related benchmarking of population groups in Austria. A dynamic information tool
Nina Pfeffer, Alexander Ganjeizadeh-Rouhani
Health services policies and case mix – what would you expect (or not) to happen? Selected findings from Romania and Turkey, 2000–2008
Dana Burduja
Number of hospital beds in 2030: projection with national French case-mix data
Philippe Oberlin, Marie-Claude Mouquet
Hospital case-mix funding and the necessity to adjust for socio-economic status
Julian Perelman
Refined French DRG with four severity levels
Alain Patris, Sandra Gomez, Marion Mendelsohn
Tracking patient journeys to enhance service development and resource allocation
Joe Scuteri, Lisa Fodero
ATC -> ICD – evaluating the reliability of prognoses for ICD-10 diagnoses derived from the ATC-Code of prescriptions
Andrea Weisser, Gottfried Endel, Peter Filzmoser, Michael Gyimesi
The data collection process established for the German DRG system over the last six years with focus on data quality
Mathias Rusert
From paper to production – going live with HRG4
Paula Monteith, Julie Speller
First German-Austrian case-mix comparison with real life data
Michael Wilke, Klemens Haslinger, Mike Schenker
Can short lists facilitate the collection of data on diagnosis, intervention and presenting issue in community health and outpatient care services?
Lisa Fodero, Joe Scuteri
The application of ACG predictive models to the English population for the purposes of funding allocation
Stephen Sutch, Klaus Lemke, Jonathan Weiner, Karen Kinder
A generic flow-model as a base for constructing work and monitoring processes in psychiatric care
Anette Larsson, Staffan Rosenius, Annika Stenman, Jan Lindmark
Using existing case-mix methodologies to fund trauma cases
Julia Monakova, Yuriy Chechulin
Pharmacy cost outliers in primary care; multilevel approach based on ACG in the Spanish context
A Prados, D Bordonaba, A Sicras, J Estelrich, M Aza, D Bordonaba, A Calderón, MS Corbacho, F González, MJ Lallana, A López-Cabañas, J Magdalena, B Oliván, B Poblador, A Poncel
A method to estimate expected day-surgery activity in hospitals of the Spanish National Health System
Maria Soler, Mercedes Saez, Mercè Casas
Geriatric patients: AGGIR PATHOS SOCIOS, a tool to take into account the specificity of the geriatric patient in hospital financing complementary to APRDRG
Julian Perelman
Final assessment of the ambulatory transfer potential for the coronary angiography patients in a teaching hospital in Malaysia
Zafar Ahmed
Findings of the national PbR data Assurance Framework: improving the quality of data underpinning payment by results using benchmarking to target clinical coding audits
James Peskett, Howard Davis, Peter Saunders
Administrative changes in DRG-based financing models in Portugal
Ana Luisa Cardoso, Fernando Miguel Pereira
Construction of functional related groups for an ambulatory rehabilitation system
F Candoso, H Lopes, Dália Nogueira, T Matos
Quality monitoring in thyroid surgery by Shewhart control chart
Antoine Duclos, Sandrine Touzet, Philippe Messy, Anne-Marie Schott, Cyrille Colin
Improving case mix for description and funding in rehabilitation in France: additive model is better than tree-classification
Pierre Métral, N Ducret, A Patris, P Steunou