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A casemix classification for those receiving specialist palliative care during their last year of life across England: the C-CHANGE research programme

Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2023
Background The hospice movement has provided an excellent model of specialist palliative care for those with advanced illness approaching the end of life.
Fliss EM Murtagh, Ping Guo, Alice Firth, Ka Man Yip, Christina Ramsenthaler, Abdel Douiri, Cathryn Pinto, Sophie Pask, Mendwas Dzingina, Joanna M Davies, Suzanne O’Brien, Beth Edwards, Esther I Groeneveld, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Claudia Bausewein, Irene J Higginson   +15 more
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How to build and evaluate an integrated health care system for chronic patients: study design of a clustered randomised controlled trial in rural China

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015
Background: While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources ...
Wenxi Tang, Xiaowei Sun, Yan Zhang, Ting Ye, Liang Zhang   +4 more
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The Effect of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Discharge Outcomes of Skilled Nursing Facility Residents

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004
In July 1998, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the payment method for Medicare (Part A) skilled nursing facility (SNF) care from a cost-based system to a prospective payment system (PPS). Unlike the previous cost-based payment
Walter P. Wodchis, Brant E. Fries, Richard A. Hirth   +2 more
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Identifying client characteristics to predict homecare use more accurately: a Delphi-study involving nurses and homecare purchasing specialists

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Case-mix based prospective payment of homecare is being implemented in several countries to work towards more efficient and client-centred homecare.
Anne O. E. van den Bulck, Arianne M. J. Elissen, Silke F. Metzelthin, Maud H. de Korte, Gertjan S. Verhoeven, Teuntje A. T. de Witte-Breure, Lieuwe C. van der Weij, Misja C. Mikkers, Dirk Ruwaard   +8 more
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Hospital-Based and Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities: Any Cause for Differential Medicare Payments?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2003
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) were eliminated by the SNF prospective payment system initiated in 1998.
Korbin Liu, Kirsten J. Black
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Assessing the performance of a method for case-mix adjustment in the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) system and its policy implications

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background To evaluate the performance of the patient clinical complexity level (PCCL) mechanism, which is the patient-level complexity adjustment factor within the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) patient classification system, in explaining the ...
Sujeong Kim, Byoongyong Choi, Kyunghee Lee, Sangmin Lee, Sukil Kim   +4 more
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The Experience of the Home Health Prospective Payment System in the United States and Its Enlightenment for China [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue
Based on literature analysis, the paper systematically summarizes the development history, grouping and payment mode of the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) in the United States.
HU Yuhong, GUO Lijun, PENG Xiangdong, SUN Wei, BAO Yong
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A New Approach to Reducing Payments Made to Hospitals with High Complication Rates

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2011
This article proposes a redesign of the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system to reduce payments made to hospitals with high complication rates.
Richard L. Fuller, Elizabeth C. McCullough, Richard F. Averill   +2 more
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Development of a novel hospital payment system – Big data diagnosis & intervention Packet

Health Policy Open, 2022
The diagnosis related group (DRG) was the most commonly used prospective hospital payment platform in developed countries. One of the major limitations of the DRG system is that the DRG grouping is not sufficiently homogeneous in benchmarking underlying ...
Hua Xie, Xin Cui, Xiaohua Ying, Xiaohan Hu, Jianwei Xuan, Su Xu   +5 more
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Concurrence par comparaison et transformations quasi-marchandes

Revue de la Régulation, 2015
By implementing cost accounting in the 1980 and a prospective payment system in the 2000, french reformers of hospitals have explicitely tried to put into practice the idea of yardstick competition. This paper show how the ministry of health has tried to
Pierre-André Juven
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