DO WE NEED DRGS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY IN HEALTHCARE?(Diagnosis Related Groups)(Statistical Data Included) From: Research in Healthcare Financial Management | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 isRHFM Ltd. Towson, MD. All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The analysis of production costs in any activity is one of the important tasks of economics. The major limitation of all studies in this field is the method of accounting for the multi-product nature of productive organizations. There is a consensus that healthcare institutions produce an extensive variety of products, but there is no consensus about the definition of these products. In health economics it is important to work with concepts that reflect not only economically relevant constructions and ideas but also to reflect parts of the medical side of the matter. This means ...

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