Describing Serbian Hospital Activity Using Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups: A Case Study in Vojvodina Province

Abstract

AR-DRG system for classification hospital episodes was implemented in Serbia to improve efficiency and transparency in the health system.

Keywords

• average length of stay
• outliers
• reduction of variance
• ar-drg
• casemix
• healthcare financing
• clinical coding
• povprečno trajanje hospitalizacije
• odstopanja
• zmanjšanje neskladij
• ar-drg
• razvrščanje casemix
• financiranje zdravstva
• klinično kodiranje