Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
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Healthc Financ Manage · Jun 2010
Achieving operational efficiencies using a DRG-based tracer approach.
Hospitals can use a DRG-based tracer approach to analyze and correct inefficiencies in the flow of care delivery. The approach works best when the analysis is focused on a high-volume DRG. In the case of Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, this approach was instrumental in improving efficiencies of care processes associated with DRG 143: chest pain.