The DRG-Based Hospital Prospective Payment System in Greece: An Assessment of the Reimbursement Rates Using Clinical Severity Classification

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

DRG-type hospital payment in Germany: The G-DRG system

In Germany, there are about 2100 hospitals providing care for about 17 million inpatient cases per year.3 Hospitals are financed through a system of ‘dual financing’, which means that they receive funds from two different sources: infrastructure investments are covered directly by tax-funded state budgets, whereas operating costs are paid mostly by sickness funds and private health insurers.4 T...

The Business Community Looks at Drg-based Hospital Reimbursement

Impact of DRG reimbursement system on hospital efficiency: systematic review

Background During the last two decades, most countries including developed and developing have experienced a rapid increase in health care expenditures in general, and hospital expenditures in particular. DRG-based reimbursement systems were introduced to control healthcare and hospital expenditure, increase activity levels and standardize care. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical ...

the effect of using critical discourse analytical tools on the improvement of the learners level of critical thinking in reading comprehension

?it is of utmost priority for an experienced teacher to train the mind of the students, and enable them to think critically and correctly. the most important question here is that how to develop such a crucial ability? this study examines a new way to the development of critical thinking utilizing critical discourse analytical tools. to attain this goal, two classes of senior english la...