BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS IN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Abstract

The terminology used in the newly emerging field called “behavioural economics” and some of its contributors are discussed in this paper. Behavioural economics, in the primal used way of payment for the hospital care providers called DRGs, is discussed along three subsections of this research with some representations in the domain. In many situations, behavioural economics becomes economic psychology. Some of the psychological factors that impact over the economic agents in the health system are established and the key performance indicators of knowledge of any hospital are identified and calculated in this paper to provide an overview in this area. They were subject to statistical mathematical analysis to determine the confidence interval for the average length of stay of a surgical profile department. A series of conclusions were made at the end of this study leaving the session open for the future survey.

Keywords

• diagnosis-related groups - DRG
• index of complexity of cases – ICM
• Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs)
• LOS – Length Of Stay
• companies’ behaviour
• anomalies
• psychological factors