Australian diagnosis related groups: Drivers of complexity adjustment

Australian diagnosis related groups: Drivers of complexity adjustment

Highlights • Australia is developing a new approach for ARDRG-8 complexity adjustment. • We review how Australian DRGs have used diagnoses to adjust for complexity. • We review international approaches to complexity adjustment in DRG classifications. • We describe the ways in which system-specific f...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health policy (Amsterdam) 2015-11, Vol.119 (11), p.1433-1441
Hauptverfasser: Jackson, Terri, Dimitropoulos, Vera, Madden, Richard, Gillett, Steve
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Australia
Case-mix measurement
Clinical Coding
Comorbidity
Diagnosis-related groups
Diagnosis-Related Groups - classification
Health administration
Healthcare classifications
Hospital Costs
Humans
Internal Medicine
Policy Making
Prospective Payment System
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • Australia is developing a new approach for ARDRG-8 complexity adjustment. • We review how Australian DRGs have used diagnoses to adjust for complexity. • We review international approaches to complexity adjustment in DRG classifications. • We describe the ways in which system-specific factors shape these approaches.
ISSN:0168-8510
1872-6054
DOI:10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.09.011