Severity of Illness Within DRGs
Homogeneity Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan D Horn (0000-0003-0199-4513, Johns Hopkins University), Roger A Horn (0000-0003-1307-2938, Johns Hopkins University), Phoebe D Sharkey (0000-0001-9259-7286, Johns Hopkins University), Angela F Chambers (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 225-235 |
| Publication date | 1986-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-198603000-00005 |
| PMID | 3081772 |
| OpenAlex | W1989877615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
The authors assess the ability of the Severity of Illness Index to explain variability of resource use within each DRG. The data came from 15 hospitals, all of which had a HCFA DRG case mix index greater than 1. The data set comprised approximately 106,000 discharges, for which discharge abstract data, financial data, and Severity of Illness data were available. To pool the data over the 15 hospitals, the authors converted all charges to costs and normalized them to fiscal year 1983. Adjustments were also made for medical education and wage levels. The Severity of Illness Index explained more than 10% of the variability in resource use in 94% of the DRGs, which contained 97% of the patients, and more than 50% of the variability in resource use in 36% of the DRGs, which contained 24% of the patients. For the whole data set, DRGs explained 28% of the variability in resource use, and severity-adjusted DRGs explained 61% of the variability in resource use. Thus the Severity of Illness Index explained a large amount of the variability in resource use within individual DRGs as well as in the whole data set. This explanatory power remained when outliers were removed. These results go beyond previous studies that were based on six disease conditions and/or were analyzed only within individual hospitals. The findings indicate that the phenomenon of severity of illness differences within DRGs, and the corresponding differences in resource use, is consistent across 15 hospitals that represent all sections of the United States and all teaching types
Case mix index · Economics · Index (typography) · Minimum Data Set · Nursing homes · Outlier · Psychiatry · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource use · Severity of illness · Statistics · Global Health Care Issues · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 1999 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |