Diagnosis related groups in Europe : moving towards transparency, efficiency, and quality in hospitals?

Busse, Reinhard and Geissler, Alexander and Aaviksoo, Ain and Cots, Francesc and Häkkinen, Unto and Kobel, Conrad and Mateus, Ceu and Or, Zeynep and O'Reilly, Jacqueline and Serdén, Lisbeth and Street, Andrew and Tan, Siok Swan and Quentin, Wilm (2013) Diagnosis related groups in Europe : moving towards transparency, efficiency, and quality in hospitals? BMJ, 346: f3197. ISSN 0959-8138

Abstract

Hospitals in most European countries are paid on the basis of diagnosis related groups. Reinhard Busse and colleagues find much variation within and between systems and argue that they could be improved if countries learnt from each other.