Journal article
Hospital accreditation, reimbursement and case mix: links and insights for contractual systems
Abstract
BackgroundResource consumption is a widely used proxy for severity of illness, and is often measured through a case-mix index (CMI) based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which is commonly linked to payment. For countries that do not have DRGs it has been suggested to use CMIs derived from International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Our research objective was to use ICD-derived case-mix to evaluate whether or not the current …
Authors
Ammar W; Khalife J; El-Jardali F; Romanos J; Harb H; Hamadeh G; Dimassi H
Journal
BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 13, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2013
DOI
10.1186/1472-6963-13-505
ISSN
1472-6963