Diagnosis-related groups: implications for psychiatry
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Diagnosis-related groups: implications for psychiatry
The escalating cost of medical care in most industrial countries has given impetus to several different strat egies designed to impose limitations on cost and introduce efficiency into health care systems. In the United States of America, legislation was passed in 1983 to introduce a system of prospective payment for Medicare hospital expenditures. This change was a departure from the previous ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.14.1.1