Coping with DRGs—A Nursing Home’s Experience
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Coping with DRGs--a nursing home's experience.
The introduction of prospective payment system (PPS) based on diagnostic related groups (DRGs) has had a significant impact on hospitals. To determine the impact of PPS on nursing homes, the authors studied the activity of a Veterans Administration teaching nursing home (admissions, acute hospital transfers, and discharges) during 1 year preceding implementation of DRGs and for 3 consecutive ye...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-198911000-00006