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489764 Case Mix and Health Policy: Sex and Health Care in the Regione Emilia-Romagna of Italy Daniel Z. Louis1, Vittorio Maio2, Emily Gavin1, Mary Robeson1, Carol Rabinowitz1, Lucia Nobilio3, Rossana De Palma3, Roberto Grilli3 1 Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2 Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 Agenzia sanitaria e sociale regionale , Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy. Daniel Louis
492467 Comparison of Day Surgery processes of care, ALOS, costs and revenues between Australia and France Laurence Dubourg1 1 44, clinique sainte marie, Chateaubriant, France Laurence Dubourg
492478 Evaluation of clinical risk groups to describe and monitor the population morbidity and resource utilization by Ribera department of the region of Valencia Tomás Quiros1, David Cuesta1, Carlos Trescoli2, Manuel Marin3, Marc Berlinguet4, Jon Eisenhandler4, Luis Ruiz de la Prada5, Ignacio Gimenez5 1 Organización y Calidad, La Ribera Departamento de Salud 11, Alzira, Valencia, Spain 2 Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de La Ribera, Alzira, Valencia, Spain 3 Chief Executive, La Ribera Departamento de Salud 11, Alzira, Valencia, Spain 4 3M Health Information Systems, 3M HIS Inc, Wallingford, CT, USA 5 3M España, 3M HIS Inc, Madrid, Madrid, Spain Tomás Quiros
492979 The use of different DRG groupers and its impact on hospital quality indicators Isabel G. Lema1, 2, Celeste Dias2 1 CINTESIS / Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 2 Serviço de Qualidade Operativa, Hospital de S. João, Porto, Portugal Isabel Lema
493100 Improving casemix for description and funding in rehabilitation in France : additive model is better than tree-classification Pierre Métral1, Nathalie Ducret1, Alain Patris1, Padrig Steunou1 1 Classifications, ATIH (agence technique de l'information sur l'Hospitalisation), Lyon, France Pierre Métral
493441 Fair Casemix Funding: The Marginal Distributive Principle Christopher W. Aisbett1, 2 1 Laeta Pty Ltd, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia 2 Casemix Unit, Department of Health and Children, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Christopher Aisbett
493700 Evaluation of a method to estimate the incidence of colorectal cancer through analysis of hospital discharge abstracts Catherine Quantin1, 2, Maniane Fassa2, Anne Marie Bouvier1, 3, Eric Benzenine2, Claudia Korandji2, Delphine Compain2, Audrey Bellisario2, Jean Faivre1, 3, Mariette Mercier4, Elisabeth Monnet4, Arlette Danzon4 1 Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Teaching Hospital (CHU), Dijon cedex, France 2 INSERM U 866, Burgundy University, Dijon, France 3 Register of Digestive Tumours, Burgundy University, Dijon, France 4 Register of Tumours, Franche Comte University, Besancon, France Maniane Fassa
493726 Clinical pathways at Norwegian hospitals 2003-2007. A general overview and special focus on cerebral infarction. Stein Petersen1, Ola Kindseth2 1 Health Services Research, SINTEF Health Research, Trondheim, Norway 2 Health Economics and Financing, The Norwegian Directorate of health, Trondheim, Norway Stein Petersen
494008 Pilot Project Outpatient Services Classification & Costing The Irish Way Luke N. van Doorn1, Claude Grealy2, Brian Donovan2, Christopher Aisbett1 1 Laeta pty ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Irish Health Department, HIPE Casemix Unit, Dublin, Ireland Luke van Doorn
494298 Case-Mix Report in Japanese Hospitals Kazuaki Kuwabara1, Shinya Matsuda2, Yuichi Imanaka3, Kiyohide Fushimi4, Hideki Hashimoto5, Koichi B. Ishikawa6, Hiromasa Horiguchi5, Kenshi Hayashida3, Kenji Fujimori7, Shun Ikeda8 1 Healthcare Administration and Management, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Science, Fukuoka, Japan 2 University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Fukuoka, Japan 3 Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan 4 Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan 5 Tokyo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 6 National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan 7 Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan 8 International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan Kazuaki Kuwabara
494505 Sex differences in healthcare expenditures: A population-based study in Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy Vittorio Maio1, Daniel Z. Louis2, Emily Gavin2, Mary Robeson2, Carol Rabinowitz2, Lucia Nobilio3, Rossana De Palma3, Roberto Grilli3 1 Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2 Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA 3 Agenzia Sanitaria Sociale e Regionale, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy Vittorio Maio
495570 Health Services Policies And Case Mix - What Would You Expect (Or Not) To Happen? Selected Findings From Romania And Turkey, 2000-2008 Dana Burduja1, Ahhmet A. Bilgic2 1 Center for Health Policies and Services, Bucharest, Romania 2 Tepe Teknoloji, Ankara, Turkey Dana Burduja
495688 Standardized Documentation in Physical Therapy: Testing of Validity and Reliability of the PT-ITC and Mapping it to the Metathesaurus Arna Hardardottir1 1 Division of Economics, Budgeting and Information, Landspitali university hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland Arna Hardardottir
495813 The development of DRG based payment system and its effect on cost containment in Estonia Kristiina Kahur1 1 Department of Health Economics, Estonian Health Insurance Fund, Tallinn, Estonia Kristiina Kahur
495816 Number of hospital beds in 2030: Projection with national French case-mix data. Philippe Oberlin1, Marie C. Mouquet1 1 DREES, Ministère de la Santé, Paris, France Philippe Oberlin
495830 Hospital case-mix funding and the necessity to adjust for socio-economic status Julian Perelman1, 2, Marie-Christine Closon3 1 Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 2 Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 3 Centre Inter-disciplinaire en Economie de la Santé, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium Julian Perelman
495957 Refined French DRG with 4 severity levels Alain Patris1, Sandra Gomez1, Jean-François Noury1, Marion Mendelsohn1 1 ATIH, Lyon, France Alain Patris
495976 Analysis of outliers identified within a study on appropriateness of care in four clinical departments Cedric Bousquet1, Paul Vercherin1, Béatrice Trombert1, Jean-Marie Rodrigues1 1 SSPIM, CHU de saint-Etienne, Saint-Priest en Jarez, France Cedric Bousquet
495990 Predicting Underreported CT and MRI Procedures In U.S. Hospital Inpatient Data Using Detection Control Estimation Clara E. Dismuke1, William D. Bradford1 1 Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA Clara Dismuke
496083 Tracking patient journeys&’ to enhance service development and resource allocation Joe Scuteri1, Lisa Fodero1 1 HealthConsult, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Joe Scuteri
496178 Hospital emergencies: measuring morbidity and costs in an integrated care organization Pere Ibern2, Jose M. Inoriza1, Jordi Coderch-Lassaletta1, Marc Carreras1, 4, Manuel Garcia-Goñi3, Elvira Sanchez-Gonzalez1 1 Departament d'Avaluació, Informació i Recerca, Serveis de Salut Integrats Baix Emporda, Palamos, Girona, Spain 2 Departament d'Economia i Empresa. CRES , Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Departamento de Economia aplicada II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, MAdrid, Spain 4 Departament de Empresa, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Girona, Spain Jose Inoriza
496275 Successful application of the APR-DRG classification to assess the episodes of care of patients who died Carlos Elvira1, Matthias Kirtse2, Marc Berlinguet2 1 Admisión y Documentación Clínica y Dpto. Medicina Preventiva, S.P. e H.C. (Univers.Complutense), Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain 2 Health Information Systems, 3M, Wallingford, CT, USA Carlos Elvira
496299 Describing Iranian Hospital Activity Using Australian Refined DRGs: A Case Study of the Iranian Social Security Organisation Shahram Ghaffari1, Terri Jackson2, Christopher Doran3, Andrew Wilson3, Chris Aisbett4 1 Iranian Social Security Organisation, Tehran, Iran 2 ACER, UQ, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 SPH, UQ, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 LEATA Pty. Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Shahram Ghaffari
496551 Financing along clinical service lines Anand Kumar1, Jean-Marie Rodrigues1 1 Department of public health and medical informatics, University of Saint Etienne USE, St. Etienne, France Anand Kumar
496713 Using Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios to track quality of care in public hospitals in Singapore Eng Kok Lim1, Mabel Deurenberg-Yap 1, Rehena Sultana1, Yiong Huak Chan1 1 Healthcare Performance Group, Ministry of Health Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Eng Kok Lim
496720 What can we learn from international comparisons by DRG and from comparisons between hospitals? Pirson Magali1, Schenker Luc1 1 Health Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Pirson Magali
496727 Case-mix and Hospital Management Evaluation Paul Radu1, Mona Moldovan1 1 Scoala Nationala de Sanatate Publica si Management Sanitar, Bucharest, Romania Paul Radu
496831 Experience in implementing case-mix system in Mongolia Syed M. Aljunid1, Saperi B. Sulong1, Zafar Ahmed1 1 International Institute For Global Health, United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory, Malaysia Syed Aljunid
496835 Is it a big advantage to develop a DRG system based on an international established system? - Experiences of the development of the Swiss DRG system based on the German G-DRG system Martin Braun1 1 Department of Medicine, Institute for the Hospital Financing System (InEK), Siegburg, Germany Martin Braun
496839 The data collection process established for the German DRG system over the last six years with focus on data quality Mathias Rusert1 1 Department IT & Statistics, Institute for the Hospital Financing System (InEK), Siegburg, Germany Mathias Rusert
496861 Inpatient or outpatient - does it make a difference in terms of hospital costs and cost efficiency? Kirsi Vitikainen1, Miika Linna1 1 The National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (Stakes), Helsinki, Finland Kirsi Vitikainen
496879 From Paper to Production - Going Live with HRG4 Paula Monteith1 1 Standards & Classifications, NHS Information Centre for Health & Social Care, Leeds, United Kingdom Paula Monteith
496880 First German - Austrian CaseMix comparison with real life data Michael H. Wilke1, Klemens Haslinger2, Mike Schenker3 1 inspiring.health, Munich, Germany 2 Salzburger Gesundheitsfonds, Salzburg, Austria 3 inspiring.health, Munich, Germany Michael Wilke
496937 Patient Classification, Nurses and the Professional Literature Edward J. Halloran1 1 Nursing School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Edward Halloran
496955 Evaluating the quality of ICD coding in the DPC in Japan Makoto Anan1, Kazuaki Kuwabara2, Yoko Hisatomi3, Kiyohide Fushimi4, Yuichi Imanaka6, Hideki Hashimoto5, Hiromasa Horiguchi5, Koichi B. Ishikawa7, Shinya Matsuda8, Kenji Fujimori9, Shunya Ikeda10, Kenshi Hayashida6, Hideo Yasunaga5, Mitoe Akioka1, Miwako Shibata1, Rie Kurakake1, Miyuki Horigami1, Aki Inoue1, Marika Minamoto1 1 Health information management, National Kyushu Medical Centre, Fukuoka, Japan 2 Department of Health Care Administration and Management, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan 3 Department of Health information, Ainet systems corporation, Osaka, Japan 4 Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan 5 Tokyo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 6 Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan 7 National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan 8 Public Health, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, KItakyushu, Japan 9 Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan 10 International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan Makoto Anan
496979 Using activity based costing to understand and manage hospital financing and costs Margarida Bajanca1 1 Consulting, Deloitte, Lisbon, Portugal Margarida Bajanca
497039 A Patient Injury Classification for use with routine hospital data Terri Jackson1, Jude Michel1, Rosemary Roberts1, Christine Jorm2, John Wakefield3 1 Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Department of Health and Ageing, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Patient Safety Centre, Queensland Health , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Terri Jackson
497048 Can short lists facilitate the collection of data on diagnosis, intervention and presenting issue in community health and outpatient care services? Lisa Fodero1, Joe Scuteri1 1 HealthConsult, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Lisa Fodero
497058 Application of ICF codes for geriatric care Jiro Okochi1 1 Tatsumanosato Geriatric Health Facility, Daito Osaka, Osaka, Japan Jiro Okochi
497072 Pharmacy cost outlier patients in primary care. Retrospective application of ACG® in a Spanish context. Amaia Calderón1, Alexandra Prados1, Antonio Sicras2, José Estelrich3 1 Producción, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain 2 Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain 3 Gerencia de Atención Primaria Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain Amaia Calderón
497089 DRG Grouper Design with Immediate Test of Resource Explanation Örjan Leringe1 1 DRG System Development AB, Stockholm, Sweden Örjan Leringe
497144 Beyond triage: Usefulness of the Manchester Triage system as case mix analysis instrument in health planning and resource allocation Henrique Martins1, Luis D. Cuña2, Paulo T. Freitas3 1 Serviço de Medicina I, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal 2 Serviço de Urgência, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal 3 Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal Henrique Martins
497145 Estimating Resource Intensity Weights for CMG+ Atypical Cases Qian Yang1, Jeff Hatcher1 1 Case Mix, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Qian Yang
497154 Enhancements to the CMG+ Comorbidity Factor Methodology Jean J. He1, Jeff Hatcher1, Craig Homan1 1 Case Mix, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Jean He
497166 Using Costing Data to Develop Funding and Budget Allocation Methodology for New Technology Julia Monakova1, Charles Botz2, Rosalind Tarrant3, Gino Picciano4 1 Ontario Joint Policy and Planning Committee, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada 3 Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada 4 The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Julia Monakova
497168 Clinical benchmarking: a driver of change. The case of Ambulatory Surgery Margarida G. Bentes1, Salomé Estevens1, João Completo1 1 Iasist Portugal, Iasist Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal Salomé Estevens
497177 The application of ACG Predictive models to the English Secondary and Primary care data Stephen Sutch3, 1, Klaus Lemke2, Jonathan Weiner2, Karen Kinder3, 2 1 Sutch Consulting International Ltd, Eastleigh, United Kingdom 2 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 ACG International, Johns Hopkins University, Serrig, Germany Stephen Sutch
497182 Population based register studies of cancer in Southern Health Care Region in Sweden - phase 2 Bo Attner1, Thor Lithman1, Dennis Noreen1, Hakan Olsson2, 1 1 Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2 Department of Oncology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Bo Attner
497192 Designing National Register and Network for patients with SCI sequel Cipriana Mihaescu1, Gelu Onose2, Aurelian Anghelescu2 1 Health Services Management Centre, SNSPMS, Bucharest, Romania 2 ROSCoS, Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine Clinic Division, Emergency Hospital B.Arseni, Bucharest, Romania Cipriana Mihaescu
497203 The Methodology Proposed to Develop an International classification system for Procedure: The Categorial Structure Jean-Marie Rodrigues1, Richard Madden2, Pierre Lewalle3, Beatrice Trombert Paviot1, Anand Kumar1 1 SSPIM, University Of Saint etienne, Saint priest en Jarez, France 2 WHO-FIC network, University Of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Measurement and health information systems, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Jean marie Rodrigues
497209 One-year follow-up of elderly patients hospitalized for hip fracture using linkage of administrative databases. Mathilde Raphael1, Josiane Holstein1, Antonio Teixeira2, Gilles Chatellier1 1 Medical Information Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France 2 Geriatric medicine department, Plaisir-Grignon hospital, Plaisir, France Josiane Holstein
497213 A Process model as tool for describing, planning and evaluating patient&’s pathways - design, implementation and validation Jan E. Lindmark1, Michael Dahlberg2, Veronika Sundström2, Lojsan Sundström2 1 The Swedisht Associationof Local and Regional Authorities, Stockholm, Sweden 2 The Department of Surgery, Lulea, Sweden Jan Lindmark
497214 Length of hospital stay and discharge destination can be modelled using a survival analysis approach. Application to the association of patients' socioeconomic characteristics with the length of hospital stay from the French national DRG database Ludovic Trinquart1, Josiane Holstein2, Tanja Bastianic2, Namik Taright2, Gilles Chatellier1, 2 1 Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, INSERM CIE 4, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France 2 Medical Information Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France Ludovic Trinquart
497216 Challenging the idea of epidemiology by focusing the burden of morbidity in an individual perspective Lennart Carlsson1, Roland Morgell1, Lars-Erik Strender1, Britt Arrelöv2, 1, Gunnar H. Nilsso 1 1 Center for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Medical Management Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Lennart Carlsson
497220 Applying the Nordic rehabilitation case mix model to a French case mix database Beatrice Trombert Paviot1, Jean-Marie Rodrigues1 1 DSPIM, University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France Beatrice Trombert Paviot
497262 DRG-Data for the Monitoring of the Health Care System Karl P. Pfeiffer1 1 Dept.f.Med.Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Karl Pfeiffer
497263 Statistics in the Thai Mental Health Case-mix Classification Bupawan Phuaphanprasert1, Supasit Pannarunothai2 1 The Suanprung Psychiatric Hospital, The Thai Mental Health Department, Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2 The Centre of Health Equity Monitoring, Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University, Muang, Phitsanulok, Thailand Bupawan Phuaphanprasert
497276 Refining hospital reimbursement: A Belgian pilot study aimed at appropriate length of stay, charge and cost Pieter Van Herck1, Walter Sermeus1, Arthur Vleugels1 1 Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Pieter Van Herck
497406 Advantages and disadvantages of being the lead hospital in a DRG implementation Mustafa Ozmen1, Richard P. Marshall2 1 Hacettepe University Hospital, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey 2 TCHealth, HUAP Project Turkey, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey Mustafa Ozmen
497475 Using Existing Case-Mix Methodologies to Fund Trauma Cases Julia Monakova1, Charles Botz2, Irene Blais3, Gino Picciano4, Antoni Basinski1 1 Ontario Joint Policy and Planning Committee, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada 3 The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Julia Monakova
497500 Going beyond diagnosis-based case-mix systems: how adding pharmacy information to your decision support systems can improve the efficient delivery of health care. Karen Kinder Siemens1 1 Health Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins University, Serrig, Germany Karen Kinder Siemens
497620 Pharmacy cost outliers in primary care. Multilevel approach based on ACG® in the Spanish context. Daniel Bordonaba1, Alexandra Prados1, Antonio Sicras2, José Estelrich3 1 Producción, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain 2 Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain 3 Gerencia de Atención Primaria Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain Daniel Bordonaba
497668 A method to estimate expected day surgery activity in hospitals of the Spanish National Health System Maria Soler1, Mercedes Sáez1, Mercè Casas1 1 IASIST, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Maria Soler
497755 Towards transparency in health care in the Netherlands Anna van Poucke1 1 DBC-Onderhoud, Utrecht, Netherlands Anna van Poucke
497785 Strategies for Using Repeated Hospitalizations to Identify Coding Problems Jason Sutherland1, Olafr Steinum2 1 Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 2 DiaQualos AB, Uddevalla, Sweden Jason Sutherland
497803 Redesigning the Dutch DBC-system; towards increased transparency. From ideas and directions for improvement to implementation Joost Warners1, Mathee Swenne1, Jacob Hofdijk1, Jaap Stam1 1 DBC-Onderhoud, Utrecht, Netherlands Joost Warners
497864 Medical Device Classification / Surgical Product Classification Brian Ruff 1 1 Strategic Risk Management , Discovery Health , Sandton , South Africa Brian Ruff
497866 Applications of the ‘home grown’ Discovery Health ‘Episode’ Grouper Brian Ruff1 1 Strategic Risk Management, Discovery Health , Gauteng, Gauteng, South Africa Brian Ruff
497868 Managing gaming phenomena in the Tuscan performance evaluation system. Sabina Nuti1, Anna Bonini1, Milena Vainieri1 1 Management and Health Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Sabina Nuti
497870 Using available cost data for producing optimal DRG costweights - The experience in Turkey. Mustafa Ozmen2, Steve Gillett1, Richard P. Marshall1, Tolga Aktan3 1 TCHealth Turkey, HUAP Project Turkey, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey 2 Hacettepe University Hospital, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey 3 HUAP Project Turkey, Tepe Teknoloji, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey Mustafa Ozmen
497871 Is the health of the spouse affected by tumour disease in the wife or husband? A part of Population based register studies of cancer in Southern Health Care Region in Sweden-phase 2 Katarina Sjövall1, 3, Bo Attner2, Thor Lithman2, Dennis Noreen2, Barbro Gunnars3, 1, Bibbi Thomé3, Hakan Olsson1, 3 1 Department of Oncology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden 2 Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden 3 Department of Health sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund, Sweden Katarina Sjövall
497881 Case mix funding for ambulatory care: the Belgian case Marie-Christine Closon1, Isabelle Roch1, Isabelle Heymans2, Catherine Moureau2, Lieven Annemans3, Julian Perelman4, Raphael Lagasse2 1 Centre Inter-disciplinaire en Economie de la Santé, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium 2 École de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 3 Universiteit Gent, Brussels, Belgium 4 Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Marie-Christine Closon
497896 Using the ACG Case-Mix predictive model to identify individuals at high risk of hospitalisation in the elderly population. Anders Halling1 1 Family Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden Anders Halling
497908 Our Charité Hospital challenge: who to compare to when looking at mortality? Marc Berlinguet1, Lutz Fritsche3, Matthias Kirste2, Christine Kolodzig2 1 Health Information Systems, 3M , Wallingford, CT, USA 2 HIS-Europe, 3M , Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3 Quality Department, Charite Hospital, Berlin, Berlin, Germany Lutz Fritsche
497910 Geriatric patients: AGGIR SOCIIOS PATHOS, a tool to take into account the specificity of geriatric patient in hospital financing complementary to APRDRG Marie-Christine Closon1, Jean-Pierre Baeyens2, Freddy Falez3, Micheline Gobert1, Thierry Pepersack 4 1 Centre Inter-disciplinaire en Economie de la Santé, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium 2 AZ Damiaan, Oostende, Belgium 3 Union Nationale des Mutualités Socialistes, Brussels, Belgium 4 Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium Marie-Christine Closon
497914 Comparison of Cost Weights developed by USA and Malaysia using IR DRG Zafar Ahmed1, Marc Berlinguet2, Richard W. Freedman2, Syed Aljunid1 1 Case Mix, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 Health Information Systems, 3M, Wallingford, CT, USA Zafar Ahmed
497928 Can DRG&’s be aggregated for health policy purposes: A Pilot Macro Model Leena Kiviluoto1 1 The Directorate of Health, Oslo, Norway Leena Kiviluoto
497933 The Impact of Diagnosis Coding Granularity on the CaseMix Tapio Pitkäranta1 1 Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland Tapio Pitkäranta
497936 AR DRGs - A companion to data quality Jacqui Curley1 1 HIPE Unit, ESRI, Dublin 2, Ireland Jacqui Curley
497960 Improving Data Quality Audits Through National Benchmarking Howard Davis1, Jon Evans1, John Sandhu1, James Peskett1 1 Health Directorate, Audit Commission, London, United Kingdom Howard Davis
497968 NordPol project - NordDRG with full outpatient grouping Martti Virtanen1, Leena Kiviluoto2, Mats Fernström3 1 Nordic Centre for Classifications in Health Care, , Uppsala, Sweden 2 Norwegian Board of Health, Oslo, Norway 3 Center for Patient Classification, Swedish Board of Health and Wellfare, Stockholm, Sweden Martti Virtanen
497974 The Relationship between Co-morbidity and Quality of Care for Patients with Diabetes in Taiwan Wui C. Lee1, 2 1 Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 2 National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Wui Lee
497979 Comparison of district physicians and family doctors care by visits to primary and out-patient secondary health care for selected chronic conditions in different co morbidity groups Arnoldas Jurgutis1, Arvydas Martinkenas1, Klaus Lemke2 1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania 2 Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Arnoldas Jurgutis
497991 Performance Profiling in English Primary Care Practices Using Diagnosis-Based Risk Adjustment Ipek Gurol Urganci1, Jonathan Weiner2, Andrey Timoshkin1, Karen Kinder Siemens2, Rifat Atun1 1 Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 2 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Ipek Gurol Urganci
497995 Case-mix and process indicators adjustment in monitoring the quality of prostate biopsies using multivariate control charts Marie-Annick Le Pogam1, Philippe Paparel2, Antoine Duclos1, Sandrine Touzet1, Cyrille Colin1, Paul Perrin2 1 Pôle IMER, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France 2 CHLS - Department of Urology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France Marie-Annick Le Pogam
498921 Beyond funding: developing specific indicative cost components for internal hospital benchmarking based on DRG data Jean-Claude Rey 1, Hervé Guillain1, Luc Schenker1, Duong Hong-Dung1 1 Institut de santé et d'économie (ISE), Ecublens, Switzerland Jean-Claude Rey
499348 Casemix systems and quality evaluation: a young marriage soon to divorce? Peter Fontaine1, Luc Van Aken2 1AZ Nikolaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 2 Partezis, Heverlee, Belgium Peter Fontaine
508470 Using national and regional registers for health policy analysis for management of mental health care Bengt E. André2, Emma Björkenstam1, Maria Lindberg2 1 Centre for Patient Classification, Centre for Epidemiology , National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions SALAR, Stockholm, Sweden Emma Björkenstam
508690 Administrative changes in DRG-based financing models in Portugal Ana L. Cardoso1, Fernando M. Pereira1 1 Hospital de São João, Porto, Portugal Ana Cardoso
510069 Assessing the quality of coding in Portuguese hospitals, 2007-2008 Nuno Amaro1, Ana Barreto1, Teresa P. Boto1, Fátima Candoso1, António C. Santos1 1 Financing and Contracting Operational Unit, Health System Central Administration and Board of Health, Lisbon, Portugal António Santos
510073 Financing within the scope of the Integrated Disease Management – “Payment per comprehensive price&” Anabela Candeias2, Fátima Candoso1, Paulo Espiga1, Filipa Moreira1 1 Financing and Contracting Operational Unit, Health System Central Administration and Board of Health, Lisbon, Portugal 2 General Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal Filipa Moreira
510077 Construction of Functional Related Groups for Ambulatory Rehabilitation System Fátima Candoso1, Helena Lopes1, Tânia Matos2, Dália Nogueira1 1 Financing and Contracting Operational Unit, Health System Central Administration, Lisbon, Portugal 2 National School of Public Health, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Dália Nogueira
510079 Patient Classification System based on Dependency of Nursing Care (PCS/N) Fátima Candoso1, Helena Mota1, Cristina Paulino1, Helena Simões1 1 Financing and Contracting Operational Unit, Health System Central Administration, Lisbon, Portugal Cristina Paulino
510081 The impact of an activity based hospital resource allocation model Nuno Amaro1, Fátima Candoso1, Cristina Ferreira1, Cláudia Borges1, Manuela R. Rocha1 1 Financing and Contracting Operational Unit, Health System Central Administration, Lisbon, Portugal Cláudia Borges