Peterson Cora, Grosse Scott D, Dunn Abe
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention and Control, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
SAGE Open Med. 2019 Mar 29;7:2050312119840200. doi: 10.1177/2050312119840200. eCollection 2019.
Despite the prominence of episode groupers for analysis and reimbursement in US payer settings, peer-reviewed articles using episode groupers for cost-of-illness analysis that informs public health research and decision-making are uncommon. This article provides a brief practical guide to episode-based cost analysis and offers some examples of episode grouper products. It is intended for an audience of health services researchers and managers in public health settings who perform or commission cost-of-illness studies with the US healthcare claims fee-for-service data but lack familiarity with episode groupers.
尽管在美国医保支付方环境中,疾病分组工具在分析和报销方面具有显著地位,但利用疾病分组工具进行疾病成本分析以指导公共卫生研究和决策的同行评审文章却并不常见。本文提供了一份基于疾病分组的成本分析简要实用指南,并列举了一些疾病分组工具产品的示例。本文面向公共卫生领域的卫生服务研究人员和管理人员,他们使用美国医疗保健索赔按服务收费数据进行或委托开展疾病成本研究,但对疾病分组工具并不熟悉。