Reducing low value services in surgical inpatients in Taiwan: Does diagnosis-related group payment work?
Reducing low value services in surgical inpatients in Taiwan: Does diagnosis-related group payment work? (Science Direct).
Reducing low-value care is a top priority in health care. However, how prospective payment methods such as diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment scheme reduce the use of low-value services is unclear. This study aimed to assess frequency of low-value preoperative testing services among surgical inpatients over time and to investigate whether the 2010 Tw-DRG policy has reduced utilization of these services under the National Health Insurance
program in Taiwan. [...]
Quelle: Science Direct, 21.10.2019