Accounting for What Matters to Patients in the G-DRG System: A Stakeholder’s Perspective on Integrating Functioning Information

Functioning information constitutes a relevant component for determining patients’ service needs and respective resource use. Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) systems can be optimized by integrating functioning information. First steps toward accounting for functioning information in the German DRG (G-...

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Main Authors: Maren Hopfe, Gerold Stucki, Jerome E Bickenbach, Birgit Prodinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-08-01
Series:Health Services Insights
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1178632918796776