Health Care

DRG Outliers

In health care reimbursement, especially in the prospective payment system, those patients who require an unusually long hospital stay or whose stay generates unusually high costs.

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Abstract

In health care reimbursement, especially in the prospective payment system, those patients who require an unusually long hospital stay or whose stay generates unusually high costs.

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  • Diagnosis-Related Group Outliers
  • Diagnostic-Related Group Outliers
  • Outliers, DRG
  • Outliers, Diagnosis-Related Group
  • DRG Outlier
  • Diagnosis Related Group Outliers
  • Diagnosis-Related Group Outlier
  • Diagnostic Related Group Outliers
  • Diagnostic-Related Group Outlier
  • Outlier, DRG
  • Outlier, Diagnosis-Related Group
  • Outlier, Diagnostic-Related Group
  • Outliers, Diagnosis Related Group
  • Outliers, Diagnostic-Related Group

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2 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

a concept in health care reimbursement; outliers as a statist concept, index under STATISTICS AS TOPIC or specific statist term

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History Note

91; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUP OUTLIERS was DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUP OUTLIERS 1991

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Previous Indexing

  • Costs and Cost Analysis (1986-1990)
  • Diagnosis-Related Groups (1986-1990)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. DRG Outliers. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016311. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016311
  2. DRG Outliers. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier
  3. DRG Outliers. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779824