A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system
Diagnostic Services -- economics : Assessment of diagnostic technology in health care : rationale, methods, problems, and directions / Harold Sox [and others]
1989
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Hospitals -- Diagnostic services. : Patterns of electrolyte testing at children's hospitals for common inpatient diagnoses / American Academy of Pediatrics
--subdivision Ultrasonic imaging under individual diseases and types of diseases and individual organs and regions of the body other than brain and heart, e.g. Cancer--Ultrasonic imaging; Foot--Ultrasonic imaging
Diagnostic specimens -- Analysis : Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology / Manfred Dietel, Christian Wittekind, Gianni Bussolati, Moritz von Winterfeld, editors
Diagnostic specimens -- Management. : Requirements for the retention of laboratory records and diagnostic material / National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the cardiovascular system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the digestive system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system, central and peripheral, or demonstration of neurologic function or dysfunction
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system, central and peripheral, or demonstration of neurologic function or dysfunction
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of conditions related to pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium and of diseases of the female genitalia. It includes also demonstration of genital and pregnancy physiology
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of conditions related to pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium and of diseases of the female genitalia. It includes also demonstration of genital and pregnancy physiology
Any diagnostic evaluation using radioactive (unstable) isotopes. This diagnosis includes many nuclear medicine procedures as well as radioimmunoassay tests
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of disease or dysfunction by examination of the pathological site or operative field during surgical intervention
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the cardiovascular system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the digestive system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system, central and peripheral, or demonstration of neurologic function or dysfunction
Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system, central and peripheral, or demonstration of neurologic function or dysfunction
