Swiss hospitals were required to implement a prospective payment system for
reimbursement using a diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) classification system by the …

Summary Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) are currently being introduced on a national
scale as a prospective reimbursement scheme in Swiss in-patient hospital care, replacing …

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: The starting point of the interdisciplinary project" Assessing
the impact of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) on patient care and professional …

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 …

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 …

BACKGROUND:: Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) are a well-established provider payment
system. Because of their immanent potential of cost reduction, they have been widely …

Summary Context Germany and Switzerland have introduced diagnosis‐related groups
(DRGs) for hospital reimbursement. This scoping review aims to evaluate if empirical …

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

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 …

BACKGROUND Payment mechanisms represent one of the fundamental building blocks of
any health system, introducing powerful incentives for actors in the system and fierce …