Ferguson L
Northern Sydney Area Health Service, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW.
Med J Aust. 1994 Sep 5;161(S1):S37-9. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb138390.x.
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.
诊断相关分组（DRGs）患者分类系统提供了有关急性住院患者的治疗类型、数量以及住院时间和治疗费用的信息。在澳大利亚，护士参与了病例组合的制定，就护理问题向政府部门提供建议；研究一个诊断相关组中护理患者与另一个诊断相关组相比的相对成本；为所治疗的病例组合预算护理资源；并利用病例组合信息改变做法，以更有效地利用资源并维持护理质量。病例组合信息使护士能够与其他临床医生和管理人员合作，为临床服务管理做出贡献。
