Objective
The objectives of the project were:
1) To identify areas of DRGs work where it would be beneficial and feasible to increase the level of standardization and to take steps to promote and implement such standardization.
2) To develop and encourage adoption and use of standards in the annotation of DRG statistical publications, so that opportunities will be taken to compare and aggregate statistics across EC countries; and conversely, so that the risks of invalid comparisons might be reduced.
3) To describe recent and current activities in the area of DRGs in EC countries within a common scientific framework and with sufficient technical detail, so that all countries might benefit from the experience of others.
4) To describe plans and needs for future DRG work, and hence to promote the exchange of ideas that might beneficially influence planning decisions at the level of individual EC countries.
The use of case mix measures has extensively contributed to the knowledge of hospital performance. The spread of diagnosis related groups (DRG) in Europe offers new possibilities for research in this field. The EURODRG project has examined the opportunities for getting comparable DRG hospital statistics in Europe and has produced an overview of DRG used in Europe. Factors introducing difficulties for comparability have been analyzed and agreement on recommendations among experts has been reached. Comparisons of DRG hospital databases from 6 countries have been produced and important differences in length of stay (LOS) for high volume, well defined DRGs have been found, both among countries and among hospitals within countries.
Measurement of the hospital product has been a field of research of significant strategic importance in improving the efficiency of health services. The use of Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) had spread in various European countries during the past decade, offering new possibilities for obtaining information and for comparing hospital operations, at both national and international levels.
The EURODRG project attempted to optimize efforts carried out in Europe towards the incorporation of DRGs as an instrument for improving hospital management.
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08007 Barcelona
Spain
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