DRG-Blog

Frank Krummenauer, Klaus-Peter Guenther und Stephan Kirschner:
Cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty from the health care providers’ perspective before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway – is investment always improvement?
BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11:338, BioMed Central

[DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-338]

Bleich, Sara N. PhD; Chang, Hsien-Yen PhD; Lau, Bryan PhD, MS MHS; Steele, Kimberly MD; Clark, Jeanne M. MD; Richards, Thomas PhD; Weiner, Jonathan P. PhD; Wu, Albert W. MD; Segal, Jodi B., MD, MPH:
Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Patients With Diabetes
Medical Care: January 2012 – Volume 50 – Issue 1 – p 58–65, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

[DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182290349]

Kristian Bolin, Anders Lundgren, Fredrik Berggren und Kristina Källén:
Epilepsy in Sweden: health care costs and loss of productivity—a register-based approach
The European Journal of Health Economics, Online First, Springer Verlag

[DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0361-8]

Janine Biermann, Till Neumann, Christiane E. Angermann, Hans-Dirk Düngen, Raimund Erbel, Wolfgang Herzog, Bernhard Maisch, Thomas Müller-Tasch, Cemil Özcelik und Sabine Pankuweit, et al:
Resource use and costs in systolic heart failure according to disease severity: a pooled analysis from the German Competence Network Heart Failure
Journal of Public Health, Online First, Springer Verlag

[DOI: 10.1007/s10389-011-0452-0]

C. Amann, J. Hasford, J. Stausberg:
Stationäre Aufnahmen wegen unerwünschter Arzneimittelereignisse (UAE): Analyse der DRG-Statistik 2006
Hospital Admission due to Adverse Drug Events (ADE): An Analysis of German Routine Hospital Data of 2006
Gesundheitswesen, Georg Thieme Verlag

[DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1286275]

Jürgen Stausberg* and Joerg Hasford:
Drug-related admissions and hospital-acquired adverse drug events in Germany: a longitudinal analysis from 2003 to 2007 of ICD-10-coded routine data
BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11:134

[BioMedCentral]
[DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-134]

Martin Emmert, Frank Eijkenaar, Heike Kemter, Adelheid Susanne Esslinger and Oliver Schöffski:
Economic evaluation of pay-for-performance in health care: a systematic review
The European Journal of Health Economics, Online First, Springer Verlag

[DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0329-8]

Lavoie-Tremblay, Melanie PhD, RN; Bonin, Jean-Pierre PhD, RN; Lesage, Alain MD, FRCP(c), MPhil, DFAPA; Farand, Lambert MD, PhD; Lavigne, Geneviève L. PhD(c); Trudel, Julie PhD
Implementation of Diagnosis-Related Mental Health Programs: Impact on Health Care Providers
Health Care Manager, January/March 2011 – Volume 30 – Issue 1 – pp 4-14, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

[LWW]
[DOI: 10.1097/HCM.0b013e3182078a95]

Edward A. Ross MD, Frank B. Bellamy RN, MSN, Scott Hawig CPA, CMA, Amir Kazory MD:
Ultrafiltration for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Cost, Reimbursement, and Financial Impact
Clinical Cardiology, Volume 34, Issue 5, pages 273–277, May 2011, John Wiley & Sons

[DOI: 10.1002/clc.20913]

Richard L. Fuller, Elizabeth C. McCullough and Richard F. Averill:
A New Approach to Reducing Payments Made to Hospitals with High Complication Rates
Inquiry: Spring 2011, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 68-83, Inquiry Journal & Excellus Health Plan

[Inquiry]