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| About the book |
Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) systems were introduced in Europe to increase the transparency of services provided by hospitals and to incentivise greater efficiency in the use of resources invested in acute hospitals. In many countries, these systems were also designed to contribute to improving ' or at least protecting ' the quality of care. After more than a decade of experience with using DRGs in Europe, this book considers whether the extensive use of DRGs has contributed towards achieving these objectives. Written by authors with extensive experience of these systems, this book is a product of the EuroDRG project and constitutes an important resource for health policy-makers and researchers from Europe and beyond. The book is intended to contribute to the emergence of a `common language' that will facilitate communication between researchers and policy-makers interested in improving the functioning and resourcing of the acute hospital sector. The book includes:
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| About the authors |
Reinhard Busse is Professor and Head of the Department of Healthcare Management at Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Alexander Geissler is a research fellow in the Department of Health Care Management at Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Wilm Quentin is a research fellow in the Department of Health Care Management at Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Miriam M. Wiley is Professor and Head of the Health Research and Information Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland.
Series Editors Martin McKee is Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as well as a co-director of the School's European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition.
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| Table of contents |
Part One 1. From the origins of DRGs to their implementation in Europe 2. Introduction to DRGs in Europe: Common objectives across different hospital systems 3. Understanding DRGs and DRG-based hospital payment in Europe 4. DRG systems and similar patient classification systems in Europe 5. DRGs and cost accounting: Which is driving which? 6. DRG-based hospital payment: Intended and unintended consequences 7. DRG-based hospital payment and efficiency: Theory, evidence, and challenges 8. DRGs and quality: For better or worse? 9. Technological innovation in DRG-based hospital payment systems across Europe 10. Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals: Conclusions and recommendations Part Two 11. Austria: Inpatient care and the LKF framework 12. England: The Healthcare Resource Group system 13. France: Implementing Homogeneous Patient Groups in a mixed market 14. Germany: Understanding G-DRGs 15. Ireland: A review of casemix applications within the acute public hospital system 16. NordDRG: The benefits of coordination 17. Estonia: Developing NordDRGs within social health insurance 18. Finland: DRGs in a decentralized health care system 19. Sweden: The history, development and current use of DRGs 20. Poland: The Jednorodne Grupy Pacjentów ' Polish experiences with DRGs 21. Portugal: Results of 25 years of experience with DRGs 22. Spain: A case study on diversity of DRG use ' The Catalan experience 23. The Netherlands: The Diagnose Behandeling Combinaties |
