International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Common DRG System - the Future of Europe? A Response to Recent Commentary

Document Type : Correspondence

Author
Gerli Paat-Ahi
Praxis Center for Policy Studies, Tallinn, Estonia; University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
10.15171/ijhpm.2015.114
Keywords
Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)
Europe
Hospital Payment
Classification
Subjects

This is a short piece in response to the “Heterogeneity of European DRG systems and potentials for a common EuroDRG system”1 by Alexander Geissler, Wilm Quentin and Reinhard Busse from the EuroDRG team. We would like to thank them for taking the time to read our article and offer excellent suggestions to the diagnosis-related group (DRG) systems for further development... (Read more...)

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  • Received Date 31 May 2015
  • Revised Date 13 June 2015
  • Accepted Date 10 June 2015
  • First Published Date 01 July 2015
  • Published Date 01 July 2015