Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and

This unique dataset is the primary input to determining is because the algorithm we use to identify complications in the National Efficient Price (NEP) and National Efficient Cost (NEC) the data – the Classification of Hospital Acquired Diagnoses for the funding of public hospital services.1 We are grateful to the Plus (CHADx+) – only reads up to the 40th column. [...] The ‘mean corrected of hospital-acquired complications was to review the methods used treatment cost’ is then calculated as the portion of each episode’s cost in the three major contributions to the literature that are particularly that remains after subtracting the relevant AR-DRG’s uncomplicated relevant to the Australian setting: treatment cost. [...] admission on variables indicating: the presence of complications; and other characteristics of the admission or the patient that are ? DRG is a dummy variable that indicates whether the ℓ-th DRG in theℓ determinants of the admission’s cost. [...] • CHADx 11.03 ‘Other complications prior to labour and delivery’ We found that the coefficient on the log of the predicted cost when • CHADx 13.08 ‘Jaundice’ (neonatal) regressed against the square of the residuals was 2.0 for both the any complication and individual complications models. [...] It may be the case that in Of course, if there were no complications in an admission, then the the individual complications model the regression was able to value of the series for that admission is zero.