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Casemix issues for nursing
Author(s) -
Ferguson Lorraine
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb138390.x
Subject(s) - nursing , general partnership , government (linguistics) , medicine , nursing management , quality (philosophy) , nursing care , business , linguistics , philosophy , finance , epistemology
The diagnosis‐related groups (DRGs) patient classification system provides information about the type and volume of acute inpatients treated, as well as the length of stay and cost of treatment. Nurses have been involved in casemix development in Australia, providing advice to government departments on nursing issues; researching the relative cost of nursing patients in one diagnosis‐related group compared with another; budgeting nursing resources for casemix treated; and using casemix information to change practices to achieve more efficient use of resources and maintain quality of care. Casemix information allows nurses to contribute to the management of clinical services in partnership with other clinicians and managers.