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Pilot Study on the Development of the Learning Disability Healthcare Resource Groups
Author(s) -
Pendaries Claude
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1997.tb00024.x
Subject(s) - learning disability , predictability , resource (disambiguation) , project commissioning , health care , homogeneity (statistics) , psychology , medicine , computer science , nursing , developmental psychology , publishing , machine learning , mathematics , economics , statistics , economic growth , computer network , political science , law
This pilot study describes a grouping method leading to the development of prototype learning disabilities Healthcare Resource Groups. Even in a primitive form, they provide a useful degree of predictability of costs and a reasonable degree of clinical homogeneity which, if confirmed by further research, would suggest that HRGs can potentially constitute alternative currencies for the commissioning of learning disability services.