An Overview of International Staff Time Measurement Validation Studies of the RUG-III Case-mix System
| Autor: | Luke A Turcotte, Brant E. Fries, Jeff Poss, John P. Hirdes |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject costs Review RUG-III 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Case mix index Health care Operations management 030212 general & internal medicine Reimbursement media_common lcsh:R5-920 business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health post-acute care lcsh:RA1-1270 Patient Acuity Payment case-mix Variety (cybernetics) Long-term care Resource utilization groups Staff time long-term care 0305 other medical science business lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Health Services Insights, Vol 12 (2019) Health Services Insights |
| ISSN: | 1178-6329 |
| Popis: | The RUG-III case-mix system is a method of grouping patients in long-term and post-acute care settings. RUG-III groups patients by relative per diem resource consumption and may be used as the basis for prospective payment systems to ensure that facility reimbursement is commensurate with patient acuity. Since RUG-III’s development in 1994, more than a dozen international staff time measurement studies have been published to evaluate the utility of the case-mix system in a variety of diverse health care environments around the world. This overview of the literature summarizes the results of these RUG-III validation studies and compares the performance of the algorithm across countries, patient populations, and health care environments. Limitations of the RUG-III validation literature are discussed for the benefit of health system administrators who are considering implementing RUG-III and next-generation resource utilization group case-mix systems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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