Resource Utilization Groups

A Patient Classification System for Long-term Care

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9102522
AutoresBrant E Fries (0000-0002-1592-2433, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, autor correspondente), Leo M Cooney (Yale University)
Ano1985
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas110-122
Data de publicação1985-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditoraOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198502000-00002
OpenAlexW4294570411
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13

The ability to understand, control, manage, regulate, and reimburse nursing home care has been hampered by the inavailability of a classification system of long-term care patients. A study of 1,469 patients in Connecticut nursing homes has resulted in such a classification system that clusters patients with similar relative needs for resources, in particular, for nursing time. The nine groups formed can be used to develop a case-mix profile of the relative care needs of these patients, and their development demonstrates that only a few measures of the functional status of patients, rather than diagnosis or psychosocial/behavioral problems, are sufficient to form such a system

Case mix index · Control (management) · Environmental resource management · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource use · Computer Science · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Nursing