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Concerns about inefficiency and excessive expenditures has stimulated interest in the measurement of the output of the hospital, an organization that produces a wide variety of products. Diagnosis Related Groups and a number of severity measures including Disease Staging, the Severity of Illness Index, and Patient Management Categories are described and evaluated. Using criteria such as reliability, clinical validity, homogeneity, number of categories, and data acquisition costs, the analysis suggests that while none of the hospital patient classification systems is perfect, great strides have been made in reflecting the multiproduct nature of the hospital.
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Rosko, M.D. DRGs and severity of illness measures: An analysis of patient classification systems. J Med Syst 12, 257–274 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999504
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