Diagnosis‐Related Group–Adjusted Hospital Costs Are Higher in Older Medical Patients with Lower Functional Status

作者: Kenneth H. Chuang , Kenneth E. Covinsky , Laura P. Sands , Richard H. Fortinsky , Robert M. Palmer

DOI: 10.1046/J.1532-5415.2003.51556.X

关键词: Activities of daily livingIn patientConfidence intervalEmergency medicinePediatricsProspective cohort studyHealth evaluationMedicineMultivariate analysisDiagnosis-related groupFunctional status

摘要: … different types of patients so that no group of patients is systematically a financial winner or … on the diagnosis-related group (DRG), which is based on patients' discharge diagnosis. …

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