The aim was to investigate the accuracy of clinical information coding and the financial consequence for trauma patients at a tertiary trauma centre using the resources of trauma nursing case managers. Clinical data for admitted trauma patients in August and September 2000 were compared with data routinely obtained by trauma case managers on their daily rounds. We audited patient injuries, in-h...

Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) systems across Europe are very heterogeneous, in particular because of different classification variables and algorithms as well as costing methodologies. But, given the challenge of increasing patient mobility within Europe, health systems are forced to incorporate a common patient classification language in order to compare and identify similar patients e.g. for ...

In the Universal Traffic Management Systems (UTMS) now being studied and developed in Japan, the infrared beacon (referred to as IR beacon from now on) is used for realizing the Dynamic Route Guidance System (DRGS) in real world. In DRGS, the IR beacon receives an optional destination information a driver specified, and immediately sends back to the vehicle the dynamic route guidance informatio...

This paper inquires into the effects that Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) have had on the ability to explain patient-level costs in a specialist paediatrics hospital. Two hedonic models are estimated using 1996/97 New Children's Hospital (NCH) patient level cost data, one with and one without a casemix index (CMI). The results show that the inclusion of a casemix index as an explanatory variabl...

Several authors have suggested that diagnosis-related groups (DRG's) make inadequate allowance for the severity of illness. Before modifications of DRG's are developed, the sources of within-group variation must be precisely defined; not all variation is attributable to the severity of illness. The limitations of the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS), of the International Classificati...

• However, newly launched expensive drugs receive specific funding in two countries. In the UK, ‘innovation payments’ can be requested for new treatments. These payments are limited to a period of up to three years. Subsequently, drugs are either reimbursed via the DRG system or added to the high cost drug exclusion list. In Germany, hospitals can request NUBs (Neue Untersuchungsund Behandlungs...

In the present study, we showed that the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) in the mouse embryo contains pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) that have developmental capacities equivalent to those of embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. Mouse embryonic DRG cells expressed pluripotency-related transcription factors [octamer-binding transcription factor 4, SRY (sex determining region Y)...

Gastric Carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in the world. A large number of differentially expressed genes have been identified as being associated with gastric cancer progression, however, little is known about the underlying regulatory mechanisms. To address this problem, we developed a differential networking approach that is characterized by including a nascent methodology, differen...