Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
This Article
Right arrow Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
1527154408319696v1
9/2/94    most recent
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Laport, N.
Right arrow Articles by Van Herck, P.
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Laport, N.
Right arrow Articles by Van Herck, P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
This version was published on May 1, 2008
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 9, No. 2, 94-102 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154408319696

Adjusting for Nursing Care Case Mix in Hospital Reimbursement

A Review of International Practice

Nancy Laport, MScA

University Hospital of Liège, Belgium

Walter Sermeus, PhD, FEANS, RN

Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Guy Vanden Boer, MSc, RN

Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Pieter Van Herck, MSc, RN

Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, Pieter.vanherck{at}med.kuleuven.be

The purpose of this study was to examine and review the different ways in which nursing care can be accounted for in a general hospital reimbursement system. The study is based on a literature review and a survey of international experts. It provides a typology of nursing care adjustment methods, using current and past practices of 14 Western countries as key examples. The results of our review indicate that it is necessary to take the variability of nursing care within DRGs into account, not from a cost-accounting perspective, but from a management perspective in terms of correct resource allocation. However, further investigation of these complex relationships is urgently needed.

Key Words: nursing • hospital • cost • reimbursement mechanism • diagnosis-related groups • case mix


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?