TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heilbrunn,Joanna Z.
AU  - Thomas,Neal
ED  - Rand eBooks.
TI  - Estimating posthospital use for principal and secondary diagnoses
T2  - A RAND note
SN  - 0833016857
AV  - RA971.32 .H45 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - After care
KW  - United States
KW  - Prospective payment
KW  - Medicare
KW  - Aftercare
KW  - utilization
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - "August 1990."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 51); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This Note documents the relationship between the principal and secondary diagnoses of Medicare hospital patients and the propensity of these patients to use home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and rehabilitation facilities after discharge from the hospital. The study demonstrates that knowledge of a patient's secondary diagnoses provides additional information about the patient's use of posthospital care beyond that contained in the principal diagnosis. It provides concrete evidence that knowledgeable administrators can skim desirable patients, not only from the current hospital diagnosis-related group (DRG) categories, but also from categories defined by the principal diagnoses contained in the current DRG categories
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ER  -