casemix
case mix
case-mix

This book is about the practical issues of casemix management.

Develop a surveillance plan based on the casemix and services provided.

I am interested in aspects other than medical and diagnosis casemix.

For other services such as mental health and aged care casemix alone is inadequate.

The differences were not attributable to a single intervention, nor to any difference in casemix.

However, it is suggested that staff development on casemix be extended to all staff.

Nurses had the feeling that insufficient nursing hours were being provided to manage the casemix.

Exposure to private sector Casemix issues would be desirable along with a clinical background.

Curricula for casemix training programs have also been developed."

It is recognised that no casemix measure reaches perfect reproducibility.

Episodes - The definition of episode is the same as described in the hospital casemix protocol.

Clearly there would be a need to develop different levels of training programs relative to the level of involvement that staff have in casemix.

At the same time, the activity of the hospital as measured by casemix activity has remained constant.

Quality activities (drug utilisation review)The range of services provided by a pharmacy department is related to a hospital's size and casemix.

Providers have moved quickly to implement casemix based purchasing of hospital services to achieve efficiency gains.

As the casemix system developed, where possible, Victoria made adjustments to the grouping process rather than to the coding standards.

A formal data quality review process was introduced in July 1993 to coincide with the introduction of casemix funding.

Do the number and mix of isolation rooms reflect the casemix, disease risk and services provided?

Performance monitoring is weak, partly as a result of the lack of casemix classification system.

A complete range of general medical and surgical casemix is experienced by the ED except for major trauma cases.

Most hospitals did not relate costs to hospital inpatient casemix or include emergency and outpatients services.

Nosologists are usually expert in more than one classification, including morbidity, mortality and casemix.

Graduates choose to come to our hospitals because of our reputation in the community and the acute casemix that we both have to offer.

From I.T. to information management with casemix data.

Medibank Private is looking for a team player to join their Casemix analysis team.

The cases involved represent 1% of the case mix in the jurisdiction.

The case mix 19 should be studied, with special reference to complex 20 cases.

The small effect of adjustment for case mix may not be the same throughout Britain.

Payment "should recognize case mix differences in the patient population being treated within the practice."

Paediatric case mix groups - national development project report.

A hybrid arrangements may be put in place; some case mix plus population demographics.

However, there are circumstances where it is by no means easy to apply such case mix correction methods.

A criticism of that study is that we 7 do not know what the case mix for all these centres 8 was.

Inadequate attention may be paid to the analysis of context data, such as case mix, leading to dubious conclusions.

The results could also be affected by trusts' differing patient numbers and case mix, a spokeswoman said.

This provides a basis for describing the types of patients a hospital or other health care provider treats (its case mix).

Care may be more fractured in July, but case mix, an important determinant of mortality, is a huge variable.

This year, he said, inspectors have checked the quality of care in about two dozen homes whose case mix indexes rose 20 percent or more.

Case mix is excellent with high acuity level.

This was partly a question of case mix, but also reflected the effect of 'labelling'.

Developing better case mix education for rural New South Wales.

The final adjustment is for case mix; certain beneficiary characteristics trigger composite rate adjustments.

First, it is a single-center study, which makes it biased towards a certain case mix.

Despite many efforts, no study has ever definitively documented greater mortality in July after controlling for case mix and severity.

Such "report cards" would have to be scrupulously fair and, for example, not penalize providers with a different case mix.

Case mix describes length of stay, intensity, cost and scope of the services provided by an institution.

For example, larger hospitals may have better trained staff or a different case mix through which better outcomes are mediated.

Crude perinatal mortality rates and rates adjusted for case mix.

During the three years to March 2008, at least 400 more patients died than would have been expected at an average hospital with a similar case mix.

There is an enormous variation of case mix and if you don't adjust for that then you discredit the whole system.

Specialist neuroanaesthetists must have broad experience of the full case-mix.

This, in turn, provides a basis for analysis of case-mix and volume and their subsequent management.

Examination of variations in case-mix between hospitals, specialities and/or consultants.

The first is due to a change in the case-mix of those patients with the target disorder (disease) and this affects the sensitivity.

That is, provider expertise and case-mix are confounders here.

Time, materials, case-mix, premises, and primary to secondary referral changes are just a few of the variables to be considered in the analysis.

However, the changed patient profile meant a changed case-mix with pressure on hospital staff to review work processes and flow.

Number, range and type of registrar services (caseload and case-mix)

Case-mix is an important subject.

Discriminative power decreased with a more valid design, a more homogenous case-mix, and year of publication.

For example, a case-mix which consistently requires examinations of greater duration and complexity than the norm may justify a higher patient dose.

Full-time sole position in an 18 bed Rehabilitation Unit with a case-mix of orthopaedic, neurological and reconditioning programs.

Issues of responsibility, on-call, supervision and case-mix from "skimming" of low intensity work by nurse practitioners all need to be addressed.

However, this centre-to-centre variation in numbers waiting could be due to differences in case-mix, with more elective patients at some centres than others, e.g.

Cross provincial analysis of variations in provision of care and health outcomes, controlling for case-mix, learning from innovations in provinces that can generally apply; 3.

Most of the debate about health care reform has focused on mechanisms such as public versus private finance or case-mix versus per diem funding of hospitals.

A Descriptive Report of the Case-Mix Within Australian Chiropractic Practice, 1992.

In more recent times, Sue has held appointments in the UK on several national advisory groups including such areas as mental health, community, primary care and case-mix.

A Classification System for Use Within the Case-Mix Context of Chiropractic Practice.

Hospital in the Home in Victoria, Australia, is funded through the hospital case-mix system and with initial directed start-up money and ongoing funding.

Commissioners also need to specify that service providers, including clinicians, review local data for case-mix, duration of treatment and outcomes, and plan inpatient and outpatient services accordingly.

Hospital Differences in Cesarean Deliveries in Massachusetts (US) 2004-2006: The Case against Case-Mix Artifact.

We contribute to the National Case-Mix Group for the specialty at the NHS Information Authority which is seeking more accurate methods of measuring and costing the work of A&E departments.

Two techniques were used to evaluate studies for their methodological rigor, Downs and Black’s checklist for randomized and non-randomized studies of health care interventions and the degree of risk adjustment for different levels of case-mix.

The CMS-HCC concurrent risk adjustment model uses current year diagnoses to adjust current year expenditures to account for changes in case-mix or the health status of assigned beneficiaries in a PGP group.