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Case mix measurement in English hospitals: an evaluation of five methods for predicting resource use.

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OBJECTIVES:The introduction of an internal market in the British National Health Service (NHS) has highlighted the importance of developing appropriate, valid and timely measures of hospital activity, both for the purposes of specifying and monitoring contracts and for evaluating the success of the NHS reforms in general. This paper compares the validity of five case mix methods (Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs); Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) versions 1 and 2; specialty classification; a simple age categorization) in predicting resource use. METHODS:Two data sets were used to compare different case mix methods. A 3% random sample (n approximately equal to 300,000) of the 1992/3 Hospital Episodes Statistics was used to test their ability to predict variation in length of stay, and a second set of individually costed patient episodes from two hospitals (n approximately equal to 40,000) was used to test their ability to explain cost variation. Analysis of variance models were used to assess the fit of each of the case mix systems to test data and a simple significance test of differences in mean squared error between models was applied. RESULTS:All case mix methods performed poorly on untrimmed data. When lengths of stay greater than 29 days were excluded, version 2 of HRGs explained 31% of total variance in length of stay and 25% of cost variation. DRGs explained less variance but performed better than HRGs version 1. For a typical hospital patient population consisting of a range of specialties, the difference in explanatory power between HRGs V2 and DRGs was statistically significant at the 5% level for sample sizes of approximately 2000 or greater. For individual specialties, the minimum sample size required for the difference between the groupers to be significant ranged from around 300 to over 2000. CONCLUSIONS:The locally developed HRGs version 2 system appears to offer superior performance in terms of resource homogeneity to other currently available approaches. It is also more adaptable and cheaper than imported alternatives and has been formally endorsed by the UK medical Royal Colleges.

journal_name

J Health Serv Res Policy

journal_title

Journal of health services research & policy

authors

Söderlund N,Gray A,Milne R,Raftery J

doi

10.1177/135581969600100104

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-01-01 00:00:00

pages

10-9

issue

eissn

1355-8196

issn

1758-1060

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Case mix measurement in English hospitals: an evaluation of five methods for predicting resource use.