PMID- 7618036
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19950822
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0034-8899 (Print)
IS  - 0034-8899 (Linking)
VI  - 68
IP  - 5-6
DP  - 1994 Sep-Dec
TI  - [Application of DRGs at a regional hospital].
PG  - 579-87
AB  - BACKGROUND: Of among the different measures systems of hospital production, we 
      adopted the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) approach for the management of the 
      cases series of the "Arnau de Vilanova" Hospital (Valencia, Spain). The use of 
      hospital services makes it possible to establish the number of patients attended 
      and in which services, while pathology distribution reflects the types of 
      patients who makes us of the hospital. METHODS: A transverse study was made, 
      reviewing the clinical histories of the hospitalized patients and applying an 
      autoexcluding medical or surgical DRG designation. Patient inspection and 
      comments with the healthcare staff afforded greater specifications. We included 
      all patients hospitalized between May 11 and 24, 1992, i.e., 263 in total, 
      corresponding to 2.53% of the annual hospitalizations in 1992. RESULTS: The most 
      frequently employed services were Internal Medicine and General and Digestive 
      Surgery. Hospital activity was defined by 90 DRGs, the GDRGs most associated to 
      hospital (nosocomial) infection being HIV-positive individuals, those operated on 
      for inguinal hernia, and oncological patients with laryngeal cancer. CONCLUSIONS: 
      Hospital activity was found to be concentrated in high volume DRGs--one of them 
      being the Medical Type "non-groupable diseases due to clinical incompleteness of 
      the management parameters, as a result of which this information remained 
      undetermined.
FAU - Suarez-Varela, M M
AU  - Suarez-Varela MM
AD  - Area de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Publica, Bromatologia, Toxicologia y Medicina 
      Legal, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia.
FAU - Segarra Castello, L
AU  - Segarra Castello L
FAU - Lloret Caballeria, A
AU  - Lloret Caballeria A
FAU - Villuendas Gorrochategui, A
AU  - Villuendas Gorrochategui A
LA  - spa
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Aplicacion de los GRDs en un hospital comarcal.
PL  - Spain
TA  - Rev Sanid Hig Publica (Madr)
JT  - Revista de sanidad e higiene publica
JID - 0404276
SB  - IM
MH  - Cross Infection/*epidemiology
MH  - *Diagnosis-Related Groups
MH  - Hospitals
MH  - Humans
MH  - Spain
EDAT- 1994/09/01 00:00
MHDA- 1994/09/01 00:01
CRDT- 1994/09/01 00:00
PHST- 1994/09/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1994/09/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1994/09/01 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rev Sanid Hig Publica (Madr). 1994 Sep-Dec;68(5-6):579-87.