The initiation of the DRG system as a new accounting system in German hospitals has changed the modalities of reimbursement to their fundations. Before this dissertation detailed data allowing the representation of plastic surgery in the DRG system were not avaiable. In this dissertation 236 diagnoses and 1302 procedures and their DRG-classification are analyzed, thus allowing the publication of extensive data on the representation of plastic surgery in the DRG system for the first time. On the basis of these data consequences concerning future payment, desired structure of in-patients and in-patient departments are made evident as well as possibilities of structure and process optimization. Also errors in the DRG system and the classification of diagnoses and procedures are pointed out, and case assessments, inhomogeneities and implausible cases are described in a clinical context.
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The initiation of the DRG system as a new accounting system in German hospitals has changed the modalities of reimbursement to their fundations. Before this dissertation detailed data allowing the representation of plastic surgery in the DRG system were not avaiable. In this dissertation 236 diagnoses and 1302 procedures and their DRG-classification are analyzed, thus allowing the publication of extensive data on the representation of plastic surgery in the DRG system for the first time. On the...
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