Hospital Costs, Cancer Patients and Medical Diagnosis-Related Groups
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Oncology
- Vol. 45 (5) , 401-404
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000226651
Abstract
This study analyzed hospital resource consumption for 5,065 Medicare patients in 90 noncancer designated medical diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) by whether or not patients had a diagnosis of a malignancy (i.e. cancer). Patients with cancer had greater hospital resource utilization than noncancer patients in these same medical DRGs. Cancer patients had a greater percentage of outliers (pKeywords
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