Cost-accounting systems could enable hospital managers to collect, summarize, analyse
and control the most relevant information regarding the allocation of resources and …

Background: Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based hospital payment systems have
gradually become the principal means of reimbursing hospitals in many European countries …

Since 1983, when Medicare adopted diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) as the basis for
paying hospitals in the United States, DRG-based hospital payment systems have become …

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) were first used to pay hospitals in 1983 under the
Medicare Program in the United States. This development was born out of a need to move …

Almost 30 years after the first introduction of a diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based
hospital payment system in the United States in 1983 (Fetter, 1991), DRG systems have …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the German diagnosis related groups (G-DRG) cost
accounting scheme by assessing its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff …

Initially, in most European countries, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) were introduced to
better describe hospital services and to improve the measurement and management of …

Germany has recently introduced a system of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to
engender more appropriate resource allocation. The following article describes the German …

Part One of this book has provided comparative information from 12 European countries
about the specific characteristics of their diagnosis-related group (DRG) systems, about how …

The rising cost of healthcare is a globally pressing concern. This makes detailed attention to
the way in which costing is carried out of central importance. This article offers a framework …