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Towards an improvement of hospital services and streamlining of health care costs: The DRG analysis in Italy
2012
The term Diagnosis-related Group (DRG) refers to a classification system used to assess hospital services with the aim of a better management of health care costs and improving performance. The DRG system focuses on the utilization of resources, and is not concerned with the specific type of care provided to the patient. This system highlights any diseconomies and eventual critical aspects of the hospital system. This article, starting from the history of heath care financing in Italy and pointing out the difficulty to define the "quality" of health care services, describes the variables used to evaluate correctly hospital performance based on the DRG system. These include Average Length of…
TOWARDS AN IMPROVEMENT OF HOSPITAL SERVICES AND STREAMLING OF HEALTH CARE COSTS: THE DRG ANALYSIS IN ITALY.
2012
The term Diagnosis-related-Group (DRG) refers to a classification system used to assess hospital services with the aim of a better menagement of a health care costs and improving performance. The DRG system focuses on the utilization of resources, and is not concerned with the specific type of care provided to the patient. This system highlights any diseconomies and eventual critical aspectsof the hospital system. This article, starting from the history of heath care financing in Italy and pointing out the difficulty to define the "quality" of health care services, describes the variables used to evaluated correctly hospital performance based on the DRG system. These include Average Length …
GROUP MODELING WITH HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES TO EXPLORE THE QUALITY OF HOSPITAL SERVICES
Σκοπός: Παρά τις καλοσχεδιασμένες πολιτικές εξυγίανσης στο χώρο της υγείας, οι έρευνες έχουν καταδείξει αρκετά αρνητικά επακόλουθα της υγειονομικής μεταρρύθμισης στην Ελλάδα για την ποιότητα των παρεχόμενων υπηρεσιών υγείας και την ικανοποίηση των ασθενών (Aiken et al., 2012; Economou et al., 2017; Mitropoulos, Vasileiou, & Mitropoulos, 2018). Εν τούτοις, πολύ λίγα έχουν γραφτεί για τους μηχανισμούς που προκάλεσαν αυτά τα ανεπιθύμητα αρνητικά αποτελέσματα. Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι να εξηγήσει τα παραπάνω ανεπιθύμητα αποτελέσματα και να παράσχει στους υπευθύνους χάραξης πολιτικής ένα εργαλείο για τον επανασχεδιασμό μελλοντικών μεταρρυθμίσεων στον τομέα της υγείας. Υλικό-Μέθοδος:…
Using System Dynamics and Group Model Building to conceptualise Quality of Hospital Services
Despite the well-established Donabedian model of hospital quality and the notion that Performance Measurement (PM) leads to improved quality of healthcare services (Donabedian, 1988; 2005), a growing part of literature during the last two decades has started doubting those favourable outcomes of PM on quality (De Vos, et al., 2009; Nolan & Berwick, 2006; Werner et al., 2008a, 2008b; Werner & Bradlow, 2006; Wright & Hershman, 2014). The purpose of this research study is to build a more comprehensive conceptual model of hospital quality, able to encompass the feedback mechanisms between elements that the Donabedian model fails to capture. More specifically, we empirically establis…