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  • Title: All-payer severity-adjusted diagnosis-related groups: a uniform method to severity-adjust discharge data.
    Author: Leary RS, Johantgen ME, Farley D, Forthman MT, Wooster LD.
    Journal: Top Health Inf Manage; 1997 Feb; 17(3):60-71. PubMed ID: 10165388.
    Abstract:
    Measuring severity of illness within diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) has become increasingly important because of the growing need to compare outcomes across providers. In response to these needs, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has developed a DRG-based severity system as a refinement to its current Medicare DRG structure. As a result of this recent HCFA research, all-payer severity-adjusted DRGs (APS-DRGs) have been developed to provide a uniform approach for severity classification that is also applicable to the all-payer population.
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