Medical Informatics Europe ’90 pp 149-155 | Cite as
The Use of the Diagnosis Related Groups: A Proposition
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The Introduction in FRANCE of a new indicator for hospital activity (the Diagnosis Related Groups : DRGs) was reviewed both about it abilities and aims. Given the situation and having worked of this project, we present a study about the validity of such an indicator and propose a way to use it. First we were working about the economic validity of the DRGs: we have studied the medications and acts consumptions in four DRGs in order to have a idea about their homogeneities. Then we went on analysing the DRGs concerning their description of medical activity commonly recognized as bad. Starting from a group of patients, we propose a method of amelioration based on a better description of the most important problems between admission and discharge, clinical as well as concerning organization. That method might have a future development in medical evaluation giving first a better description of the diagnostics and therapies on a technical and strategic point of view.
Keys Words
Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) Economic value of DRGs Medical meaning of DRGs Improvment of the description in DRGs Utilization review — Quality assurance Medical evaluationPreview
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