Accuracy of Diagnostic Coding for Medicare Patients under the Prospective-Payment System

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 352-355

  Hsia, David C ^a   Krushat, W Mark ^a   Fagan, Ann B ^a   Tebbutt, Jane A ^a   Kusserow, Richard P ^a  

^a US Dept of Hlth and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT;

EID: 0023847702     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198802113180604     Document Type: Article

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