PMID- 10121446
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19921118
LR  - 20170214
IS  - 0840-4704 (Print)
IS  - 0840-4704 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 3
DP  - 1992 Fall
TI  - Alberta's Acute Care Funding Project.
PG  - 4-20
AB  - Alberta initiated the Acute Care Funding Project (ACFP) in 1988, a new hospital 
      funding system that institutes case mix budgeting adjustments to the global 
      budget so that hospitals can be treated more equitably. The initiative is a 
      significant departure in principle from the former method of funding. The ACFP is 
      summarized and critiqued, and focuses on the inpatient side of the picture. The 
      various elements of the project are discussed, such as the hospital performance 
      index, the hospital performance measure, the Refined Diagnostic Related Group, 
      case weights, typical and outlier cases, and the costing mechanisms. Since its 
      implementation, the ACFP has undergone substantial changes; these are discussed, 
      as well as some of the problems that still need to be addressed. Overall, the 
      system offers incentives to reduce length of stay and to increase the efficiency 
      with which inpatient care is provided.
FAU - Jacobs, P
AU  - Jacobs P
AD  - Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
FAU - Hall, E M
AU  - Hall EM
FAU - Lave, J R
AU  - Lave JR
FAU - Glendining, M
AU  - Glendining M
LA  - eng
LA  - fre
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Healthc Manage Forum
JT  - Healthcare management forum
JID - 8805307
MH  - Alberta
MH  - Budgets/legislation & jurisprudence/organization & administration
MH  - Cost Allocation/methods
MH  - Diagnosis-Related Groups/*economics
MH  - Efficiency
MH  - Financing, Government/legislation & jurisprudence/*methods
MH  - Hospitals, Community/*economics/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Models, Econometric
MH  - Organizational Objectives
MH  - Program Evaluation
MH  - Public Health Administration/*economics
MH  - Rate Setting and Review/legislation & jurisprudence/organization & administration
MH  - Reimbursement, Incentive/economics/*legislation & jurisprudence/organization & 
      administration
EDAT- 1993/03/04 00:00
MHDA- 1993/03/04 00:01
CRDT- 1993/03/04 00:00
PHST- 1993/03/04 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1993/03/04 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1993/03/04 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1016/S0840-4704(10)61210-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Healthc Manage Forum. 1992 Fall;5(3):4-20. doi: 10.1016/S0840-4704(10)61210-0.