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 …

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 …

Since the first use of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) for hospital payment in the United
States in the early 1980s, 1 DRG-type hospital payment systems have become the main …

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 …

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

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 …

This book examines how nine different health systems--US Medicare, Australia, Thailand,
Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing) and the Russian Federation …

Objective This paper provides a comprehensive overview of hospital payment systems
based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in low-and middle-income countries. It also …

England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden spend less as a share of gross
domestic product on hospital care than the United States while delivering high-quality …

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