Influence of Japan's new diagnosis procedure combination-based payment system on the surgical sector: Does it really shorten the hospital stay?

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 577-585

  Yasunaga, Hideo ^a   Ide, Hiroo ^a   Imamura, Tomoaki ^a   Ohe, Kazukiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis Procedure Combination; Fee for service; Length of hospital stay; Prospective payment system

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; DIAGNOSIS PROCEDURE COMBINATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEE FOR SERVICE; GASTRECTOMY; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; HUMAN; ILEUS; INGUINAL HERNIA; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PROFIT; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SIMULATION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VARICOSIS; VEIN STRIPPING;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; GENERAL SURGERY; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; OUTLIERS, DRG; SURGERY; TOKYO;

EID: 33745497680     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3203-z     Document Type: Article

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