"Diagnosis-Related Groups" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.
| Descriptor ID |
D003953
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.710.305.200.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Diagnosis-Related Groups- Diagnosis-Related Groups
- Diagnosis Related Groups
- Diagnosis-Related Group
- Group, Diagnosis-Related
- Groups, Diagnosis-Related
- Groups, Diagnostic-Related
- Groups, Diagnostic Related
- Diagnostic-Related Group
- Diagnostic Related Group
- Diagnostic-Related Groups
- Group, Diagnostic-Related
- Group, Diagnostic Related
- DRGs
- DRG
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diagnosis-Related Groups" by people in Profiles.
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Identification, Coding, and Reimbursement of Pediatric Malnutrition at an Urban Academic Medical Center. Nutr Clin Pract. 2018 Oct; 33(5):640-646.
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Impact of case type, length of stay, institution type, and comorbidities on Medicare diagnosis-related group reimbursement for adult spinal deformity surgery. Neurosurg Focus. 2017 Dec; 43(6):E11.
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Managed care and organizational influences on hospitalist program adoption. Hosp Top. 2014 Oct-Dec; 92(4):105-11.
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Outcomes of the acute palliative care unit in an academic medical center. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2014 Jun; 31(4):380-4.
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Intensivist/patient ratios in closed ICUs: a statement from the Society of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on ICU Staffing. Crit Care Med. 2013 Feb; 41(2):638-45.
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Change in MS-DRG assignment and hospital reimbursement as a result of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid changes in payment for hospital-acquired conditions: is it coding or quality? Qual Manag Health Care. 2010 Jan-Mar; 19(1):17-24.
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Complexities in assessment of rheumatoid arthritis: absence of a single gold standard measure. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2009 Nov; 35(4):687-97, v.
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Hospital readmission from home health care before and after prospective payment. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2005; 37(1):73-9.
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Optimizing hospital reimbursement through physician awareness: a step toward better patient care. Orthopedics. 1998 Jan; 21(1):79-83.
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Psychosocial and physiological predictors of sudden cardiac death after healing of acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 1988 May 01; 61(13):979-83.