DRG-Blog

Vinod Mishra, RN, PhD, Odd Geiran, MD, PhD, Arnt E. Fiane, MD, PhD, Gro Sørensen, RN, Sølvi Andresen, MA, Ellen K. Olsen, MA, Ishtiaq Khushi, MS, Terje P. Hagen, MSc, PhD:
Costs and reimbursement gaps after implementation of third-generation left ventricular assist devices
Heart and Lung Transplantation, Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 72-78 (January 2010), Elsevier

[DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.06.029]

Frank Piontek, Rajiv Kohli, Paul Conlon, Jeffrey J. Ellis, Jason Jablonski and Narendra Kini:
Effects of an adverse-drug-event alert system on cost and quality outcomes in community hospitals
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Vol. 67, Issue 8, 613-620, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

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Gerry Robertson, Nicola Greenlaw, Steering Group Committee for the Scottish Audit of Head and Neck Cancers, Caroline A. Bray and David S. Morrison:
Explaining the effects of socio-economic deprivation on survival in a national prospective cohort study of 1909 patients with head and neck cancers
Cancer Epidemiology, Available online 16 June 2010, Elsevier

[DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.05.009]

Jack Gottlieb, Aalia Khawaja, Karen Teitelbaum, Alan Channing:
Achieving Operational Efficiencies Using a DRG-Based Tracer Approach
Healthc Financ Manage. 2010 Jun;64(6):68-76, 78, Healthcare Financial Management Association

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A Nordermoen, D Bratlid:
Costs for treatment of very-low-birth-weight infants
Kostnader ved behandling av svært for tidlig fødte barn
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2010 Jun 3;130(11):1130-4

[DOI: 10.4045/tidsskr.09.0378]

Volker R. Jacobs, Peter Mallmann:
Chief Medical Clinic Manager of a University OB/GYN Clinic – An Innovative Job Description as Management Response for Increase of Profitability, Quality of Care, and Physicians’ Freedom of Action
Onkologie; Vol. 33, No. 6, 2010;33:331-336, Karger Basel

[DOI: 10.1159/000313867]

Riccardo Pertile, Valeria Donisi, Laura Grigoletti, Andrea Angelozzi, Giuseppe Zamengo, Grazia Zulian and Francesco Amaddeo:
DRGs and other patient-, service- and area-level factors influencing length of stay in acute psychiatric wards: the Veneto Region experience
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Published online: 15 May 2010, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

[DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0231-1]

di L. Manzoli, V. Di Candia, A. Mucciconi, T. Di Corcia, M.A. Ceccagnoli, C. Chiatti, E. Cau, L. Capasso, M. Di Virgilio, G. Angeli, P. Di Giovanni, M. Panella, F. Di Stanislao, F. Schioppa:
Evaluation of the appropriateness of public hospital use using AEP, Disease Staging, and other DRG-based criteria (essential levels of care–Italian LEA): results and degree of agreement among the different methodologies – Valutazione dell’appropriatezza organizzativa degli ospedali pubblici abruzzesi tramite PRUO, Disease Staging, e mediante il calcolo dei DRG ad alto rischio di inappropriatezza secondo i “nuovi” e “vecchi” LEA: risultati e grado di concordanza tra le dive
Ann Ig. Volume 22 – Anno 2010 – Numero 2, Società Editrice Universo Roma

[SEUROMA]

F. Yekhlef, D. Decup, P. Niclot, J. Servan, S. Descombes, J. Richecoeur, A. Ollivier:
Medico-economic assessment of the Pontoise Hospital stroke unit – Évaluation médico-économique de l’unité neurovasculaire du centre hospitalier de Pontoise
Revue Neurologique, Sous presse. Epreuves corrigées par l’auteur. Disponible en ligne depuis le dimanche 16 mai 2010, Elsevier Masson

[DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2010.03.009]

Nigel Hawkes:
Patient coding and the ratings game
BMJ 2010;340:c2153, Published 25 April 2010, HighWire Press

[BMJ]
[DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c2153]