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	Autoimmune diseases - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Autoimmune diseases: A group of disorders in which the primary cause is the an inflammatory reaction caused by the body's own immune system attacking tissues.
		Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Autoimmune diseases
		The term "autoimmune disease" refers to a varied group of more than 80 serious, chronic illnesses that involve almost every human organ system.
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	Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) Descriptions \| Hospital Performance Report 2001 \| PHC4
		Colorectal Procedures: The majority of colorectal procedures are performed in relation to the presence of cancer or diverticulitis (inflammation of part of the lower digestive tract).
		Blood Clot in Lung (DRG 078): Often called a pulmonary embolism, this is a blockage in the lung usually due to a blood clot.
		Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections, complicated (DRG 320): Acute and chronic infections of the kidney and urinary tract.
	www.phc4.org /reports/hpr/01/drgdescrip.htm (913 words)

	Diagnosis-related group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of approximately 500 groups, also refered to as DRGs, expected to have similar hospital resource use, developed for Medicare as part of the prospective payment system.
		DRGs are assigned by a "grouper" program based on ICD diagnoses, procedures, age, sex, and the presence of complications or comorbidities.
		DRGs have been used since 1983 to determine how much Medicare pays the hospital, since patients within each category are similar clinically and are expected to use the same level of hospital resources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diagnosis-related_group (281 words)

	Diagnosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diagnosis (from the Greek words dia = by and gnosis = knowledge) is the process of identifying a disease by its signs, symptoms and results of various diagnostic procedures.
		The history of medical diagnosis began in earnest from the enlightened days of Hippocrates in ancient Greece but is far from perfect despite the enormous bounty of information made available by medical research including the sequencing of the human genome.
		The practice of diagnosis continues to be dominated by theories set down in the early 1900s.
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	Diagnosis-related group - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are a classification of hospital case types into groups expected to have similar hospital resource use.
		The groupings are based on diagnoses (using ICD), procedures, age, sex, and the presence of complications or comorbidities (definition from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).
		Diagnosis-related groups are a system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment and age, to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay.
	en.freepedia.org /DRG.html (315 words)

	Diagnosis-related group -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are a classification of (A health facility where patients receive treatment) hospital case types into groups expected to have similar hospital resource use.
		Diagnosis-related groups are a system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as (Identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon) diagnosis, (Care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) treatment and age, to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay.
		The history, design and classification rules of the DRG system, as well as its application on patient discharge data and updating procedures, are presented in the (Click link for more info and facts about HCFA) HCFA DRG Definitions Manual (Also known as the Medicare DRG Definitions Manual and the Grouper Manual).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diagnosis-related_group.htm (251 words)

	Figures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Length of stay by diagnosis related group: hospitalist clinician educators versus private physicians for fiscal year 2000.
		Diagnosis related group for pneumonia = 89, congestive heart failure + shock = 127, cerebrovascular accident = 14, gastrointestinal miscellaneous = 182, pancreatic diseases (not cancer) = 204, toxic effects of drugs = 449, alcohol/drug abuse/dependency = 434, chest pain = 143, alcohol liver disease = 202, diabetes with complications (age >35), arrhythmias = 138.
		Cost per case by diagnosis related group: hospitalist clinician educators versus all other MDs for fiscal year 2000.
	www.medscape.com /content/2004/00/47/30/473051/473051_fig.html (320 words)

	Diagnosis-related group : DRG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patients within each category are similar clinically and in terms of resource use (the DRG grouper uses administrative data to group patients).
		The history, design and classification rules of the DRG system, as well as its application on patient discharge data and updating procedures, are presented in the HCFA DRG Definitions Manual (Also known as the Medicare DRG Definitions Manual and the Grouper Manual).
		Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology in PDF format (http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_4/DATA/1983/8306.PDF).
	www.termsdefined.net /dr/drg.html (578 words)

	Diagnosis-related group : DRG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The groupings are based on diagnoses (using ICD), procedures, age, sex, and the presence of complications or comorbidities (definitio from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality[?]).
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	www.freetemplate.ws /dr/drg.html (540 words)

	Diagnosis-related group impact of nutrition support in cardiac surgery patients -- Flancbaum et al. 12 (5): 473 -- JPEN ...
		We studied the diagnosis-related groups (DRG) impact of nutrition support on 80 consecutive cardiac surgery patients operated upon during a 6-month period.
		Patients were arbitrarily placed into three outcome groups: group I consisted of seven patients who received postoperative nutrition support; group II included 38 patients who received no nutrition support and did not develop complications; Group III consisted of 35 patients who received no nutrition support but developed postoperative complications.
		Group I patients were significantly older than groups II and III (p less than 0.0003) and had a significantly longer average length of stay (ALOS) (p less than 0.001), ALOS in SICU (p less than 0.0001) and greater incidence of both septic complications (p less than 0.02) and mortality (p less than 0.02).
	jpen.aspenjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/12/5/473 (273 words)

	DRG\Calculator Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) number will be returned based on the information provided.
		Diagnosis codes may be entered with or without the decimal points.
		The DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) and title for the given Diagnoses, Procedures.
	www.irp.com /drghelp.htm (239 words)

	HCUP-3 Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 1994: Diagnosis-Related Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DRGs: Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are a classification of hospital case types into groups expected to have similar hospital resource use.
		The groupings are based on diagnoses, procedures, age, sex, and the presence of complications or comorbidities (CC, defined later).
		A hot-deck procedure was used to impute LOS for these cases, controlling for diagnosis-related group (DRG) and hospital characteristics (geographic region, ownership, urban/rural location, size, and teaching status).
	www.ahcpr.gov /data/hcup/94drga.htm (697 words)

	PHC4 - Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) Descriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Heart Failure and Shock (DRG 127): Congestive heart failure is an abnormal accumulation of fluid due to the heart's inability to pump a normal amount of blood.
		Vascular Operations except Heart (DRG 478): Surgical procedures on blood vessels in the head, neck, and the upper and lower limbs.
		Gastrointestinal Bleeding: (DRG 174): Bleeding from stomach or intestinal ulcers, inflammation of the stomach, or inflammation of small sac-like areas in the wall of the colon.
	www.phc4.org /reports/hpr/98/drgdescrip.htm (387 words)

	Diagnosis and Treatment of Worker-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremity: Summary (continued)
		For the DRG shoulder, elbow or forearm procedures, except major joint procedures, without comorbidities or complications, average total charges per patient are $7729.16.
		For the DRG peripheral and cranial nerve and other nerve procedures without complications or comorbidities, the average total per patient charges are $14,357.65 (with complications or comorbidities the charges are $24,288.00).
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	www.ahrq.gov /clinic/epcsums/musculo2.htm (4613 words)

	Diagnosis Related Group - AnyDoctor.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Reimbursement This is a reimbursement system for inpatient charges from facilities, which assigns payment levels to each DRG based on the average cost of treating all...
		diagnosis related group (DRG) A medical cost reimbursement method initially developed by Medicare for its prospective payment system for the reimbursement of medical fees for a patient.
		diagnosis related group (drg) 1 craniotomy age >17 with complications, comorbidities (beginning 10-1-02) 2 craniotomy age >17 without complications, comorbidities (beginning 10-1-02...
	www.anydoctor.info /diagnosis-related-group.htm (314 words)

	Summary of AR-DRG v4.1 to v4.2 changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comments here will be restricted to the diagnosis and procedure codes, which are significant to the DRG classification.
		There were nine DRG significant procedures included in these deletions which forward map to non-significant procedures.
		In addition to the DRG 961Z Unacceptable principal diagnosis changes, a total of 27 groups of disease code changes were made to the classification after the AR-DRG v4.1, with each change involving at least one code.
	www.health.gov.au /casemix/dev42.htm (998 words)

	TRICARE Provider Handbook - Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Reimbursement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Each DRG is assigned a relative weight by CMS based upon charge data for all Medicare inpatient hospital discharges.
		DRG relative weights and hospital base rates are adjusted yearly.
		A change in the principal diagnosis or sequencing of the diagnoses or procedures may result in a higher-weighted DRG and a higher reimbursement rate.
	www.triwest.com /triwest/unauth/content/provider/handbook/provider/tricare_diagnosis_related.html (1253 words)

	RBRVS EZ Fees DRG Table
		The formula used to calculate payment for a specific case takes an individual hospital's payment rate per case and multiplies it by the weight of the DRG to which the case is assigned.
		Each DRG weight represents the average resources required to care for cases in that particular DRG relative to the average resources used to treat cases in all DRGs.
		Cases are classified into DRGs for payment under the prospective payment system based on the principal diagnosis, up to eight additional diagnoses, and up to six procedures performed during the stay, as well as age, sex, and discharge status of the patient.
	www.rbrvs.net /table6.htm (307 words)

	Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Diagnosis related group 'all payor' hospital payment and medical diseases. Financial risk ...
		Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Diagnosis related group 'all payor' hospital payment and medical diseases.
		Financial risk and hospital cost in medical noncomplicating condition-stratified diagnosis related groups, February 1, 1989, Munoz et al.
		Diagnosis related group 'all payor' hospital payment and medical diseases.
	archinte.ama-assn.org /cgi/content/abstract/149/2/417 (291 words)

	CFIDS
		Diagnosis of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a time-consuming and difficult process which is generally arrived at by excluding other illnesses with similar symptoms and comparing a patient's symptoms with the 1994 International case definition.
		Many diseases have similiar symptoms including lupus, hypothyroidism and Lyme disease and these need to be considered when making a diagnosis.
		In 1994 an updated case definition was developed by an international working group of CFIDS experts.
	www.cfids.org /about-cfids/diagnosis.asp (564 words)

	Hospital employment under revised medicare payment schedules - Diagnosis Related Groups-based medicare payments' ...
		Payment to hospitals for inpatient care is assigned according to four criteria: a patient's principal diagnosis or surgical procedure, whether there is an important secondary diagnosis, the patient's age, and whether or not the patient was alive upon discharge.
		The DRG schedule is applied to inpatient services rendered to medicare beneficiaries.
		Uncertain about the eventual effects of DRG's on revenues and anticipating a need to reduce costs across the board, hospitals with large medicare caseloads attempted to reduce admissions of less acutely ill patients and shorten hospital stays before the new system was implemented.
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	TECHNICAL NOTES
		The assignment of peer groups allows a fairer comparison of hospital performance within the state; assignment was initially performed in 1994.
		For example, if a hospital’s discharges had an average severity of 1.5, its LOS would be compared to the peer group's value halfway between the peer group's LOS for a severity of one ("1") and its LOS for a severity of two ("2").
		For example, if a hospital’s discharges had an average severity of 1.5, its Total Charges would be compared to the peer group's value halfway between the peer group's Total Charges for a severity of one ("1") and the peer group's Total Charges for a severity of two ("2").
	www.in.gov /isdh/dataandstats/hosp_disch_data/1996/tech_notes.htm (731 words)

	Compliance Books, E&M Coding Aids, DRG Coding Aids, Audio and Video Educational Products
		Specifically, by educating physicians on how the DRG coding system works for hospitals and linking the value of improving inpatient documentation directly to the physician’s bottom line, hospitals now have motivated physicians to improve inpatient documentation.
		The point of commonality for both DRG coding for hospitals and EandM coding for physicians is the documentation of multiple medical diagnoses.
		After viewing this program, the linkages are clear and the education allows the audience the ability, with a copy of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Coding, to immediately transform their documentation to support a compliance correct, Medical Decision Making driven, accurate EandM CPT code.
	www.healthcarevalueinc.com /pages/3/index.htm (1794 words)

	HHS/OIG, Audit -"Expansion of the Diagnosis Related Group Payment Window,"(A-01-02-00503)
		Complete Text of Report is available in PDF format (570 KB).
		Included in the Medicare diagnosis related group (DRG) payments hospitals receive are nonphysician outpatient services, such as laboratory, radiology, and other diagnostic tests, provided (1) up to 3 days prior to the date of admission and (2) by the hospital or a related provider.
		Based on a statistical sample, we estimate, for 10 specific DRGs, that during calendar year 2000 Medicare reimbursed providers approximately $37 million for preadmission services rendered 4 to 14 days prior to the date of a related inpatient admission.
	oig.hhs.gov /oas/reports/region1/10200503.htm (257 words)

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