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Diagnosis related groups.
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The escalating cost of medical care in most industrial countries has given impetus to several different strat egies designed to impose limitations on cost and introduce efficiency into health care systems. In the United States of America, legislation was passed in 1983 to introduce a system of prospective payment for Medicare hospital expenditures. This change was a departure from the previous ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ACTUALIDAD MEDICA
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0365-7965
DOI: 10.15568/am.2014.793.or02