Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS (DRGs) to set reimbursement levels for hospitals has further stimulated interest in potential uneveness in quality. Under the DRG system, hospitals of similar types in areas of similar economic structure are paid a "flat rate" for care of patients with specific diagnoses. Each patient is made to fit into one of 467 DRG categories (for example, DRG 235 is "Fracture of the Femur"), and the hospital will be paid only a certain fixed fee for the care of that patient if the federal government is picking up the bill...
...alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...
Merchants are proud of their awards--and oftheir products-- and they say patient efforts arebeginning to reap benefits...
...Middlesex County Superior Court jury last week found a Harvard surgeon negligent in the treatment of a 33-year-old patient who died of cancer and awarded $1.8 million to her family and estate...
Medical experts who testified against Dr. Chester B. Rosoff, associate professor of surgery, said during the eight-day trial that his patient, the late Phyllis Thrope of Arlington, probably would have survived if Rosoff had done more to diagnose her disease...