Casemix Healthcare Resource Group update

The refinement projects will look at the potential of the national triage scale (NTS) and details of how long a patient stays in the department, to see if they provide a further reduction in variance and can be easily collected to drive our HRG. 2 Work to date on this refinement project anticipates making recommendations to seek changes in the minimum dataset to include the NTS triage groupings, a separate investigation code for more expensive radiological investigations, such as intravenous urography, and a treatment code to identify patients receiving thrombolytic treatment.