Severity of illness within DRGs: impact on prospective payment.

The financial impact of prospective payment on hospitals.

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...

Understanding DRGs and DRG-based hospital payment in Europe

the impact of using inspirational quotes on abstract vocabulary recall

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

Severity variations within DRGs: measurement of hospital effects by use of data on significant secondary diagnoses and procedures.

The Diagnosis Related Group classification has provided an excellent basis for enhancing the equity of resource allocation between public acute hospitals. However, it underestimates the higher levels of severity and consequent costliness of referral hospitals. This paper describes a practical way of measuring within-DRG variations in severity, which can be used to increase the precision of case...