• Med. J. Aust. · Oct 1998

    Transferred patients--more complex and more costly?

    • W W Butt and F A Shann.
    • Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC. buttw@cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au
    • Med. J. Aust. 1998 Oct 19;169 Suppl:S42-3.

    AbstractAN-DRGs have some splits which take illness severity and complexity into account. Age is also often used as a proxy for severity of illness. The need to transfer a patient may be a marker of illness severity or complexity and therefore resource utilisation. This is supported by studies of patients transferred to intensive care units. Data on the costs and outcomes of all transferred patients should be collected; depending on the results, refinements of DRGs may be indicated.

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