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DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) payment is preferred by healthcare reform in various countries but its implementation in resource-limited countries has not been fully explored. OBJECTIVES: This study was aimed (1) to compare the characteristics of hospitals in Thailand that were audited wi...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22040256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-290 |
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author | Pongpirul, Krit Walker, Damian G Rahman, Hafizur Robinson, Courtland |
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description | BACKGROUND: Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) payment is preferred by healthcare reform in various countries but its implementation in resource-limited countries has not been fully explored. OBJECTIVES: This study was aimed (1) to compare the characteristics of hospitals in Thailand that were audited with those that were not and (2) to develop a simplified scale to measure hospital coding practice. METHODS: A questionnaire survey was conducted of 920 hospitals in the Summary and Coding Audit Database (SCAD hospitals, all of which were audited in 2008 because of suspicious reports of possible DRG miscoding); the questionnaire also included 390 non-SCAD hospitals. The questionnaire asked about general demographics of the hospitals, hospital coding structure and process, and also included a set of 63 opinion-oriented items on the current hospital coding practice. Descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were used for data analysis. RESULTS: SCAD and Non-SCAD hospitals were different in many aspects, especially the number of medical statisticians, experience of medical statisticians and physicians, as well as number of certified coders. Factor analysis revealed a simplified 3-factor, 20-item model to assess hospital coding practice and classify hospital intention. CONCLUSION: Hospital providers should not be assumed capable of producing high quality DRG codes, especially in resource-limited settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-32136732011-11-12 DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand Pongpirul, Krit Walker, Damian G Rahman, Hafizur Robinson, Courtland BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) payment is preferred by healthcare reform in various countries but its implementation in resource-limited countries has not been fully explored. OBJECTIVES: This study was aimed (1) to compare the characteristics of hospitals in Thailand that were audited with those that were not and (2) to develop a simplified scale to measure hospital coding practice. METHODS: A questionnaire survey was conducted of 920 hospitals in the Summary and Coding Audit Database (SCAD hospitals, all of which were audited in 2008 because of suspicious reports of possible DRG miscoding); the questionnaire also included 390 non-SCAD hospitals. The questionnaire asked about general demographics of the hospitals, hospital coding structure and process, and also included a set of 63 opinion-oriented items on the current hospital coding practice. Descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were used for data analysis. RESULTS: SCAD and Non-SCAD hospitals were different in many aspects, especially the number of medical statisticians, experience of medical statisticians and physicians, as well as number of certified coders. Factor analysis revealed a simplified 3-factor, 20-item model to assess hospital coding practice and classify hospital intention. CONCLUSION: Hospital providers should not be assumed capable of producing high quality DRG codes, especially in resource-limited settings. BioMed Central 2011-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3213673/ /pubmed/22040256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-290 Text en Copyright ©2011 Pongpirul et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pongpirul, Krit Walker, Damian G Rahman, Hafizur Robinson, Courtland DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title | DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title_full | DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title_fullStr | DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title_full_unstemmed | DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title_short | DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand |
title_sort | drg coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in thailand |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22040256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-290 |
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