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Principal Diagnosis and Episodes of Care: Turning the Corner in Patient Information

Principal Diagnosis and Episodes of Care: Turning the Corner in Patient Information Principal Diagnosis and Episodes of Care: Turning the Corner in Patient Information Kathy Eagar and Kerry Innes Introduction Given the importance of this issue for the medical record profession, it is worth briefly reiteratingthe case for and against. In 1992 the Australian Health Ministers Advisory The case against Eagar and Innes' recommendations: Council (AHMAC) accepted a series of recommendations from the National Patient Abstracting and Coding Project 1. DRGs are being introduced into Australia for (NPACP). Two sets of those recommendations signal a payment purposes. The resource consumption change in the way patient data is collected in Australia. The definition is' more closely allied with the purposes of paper discusses the impact of that change. DRGs. 2. The health system is more interested in resource Background consumption than in reason for admission. The Eagar and" Innes (1992) report to the Commonwealth 3. This definition more closely matches principal addressed the identification and definition of source data procedure. items required for the Australian National Diagnosis Related Group (AN-DRG) classification. Contained in that 4. This is the definition currently used by the majority three volume report were a series of recommendations of states and territories. It is easier for South which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Medical Record Journal SAGE

Principal Diagnosis and Episodes of Care: Turning the Corner in Patient Information

Australian Medical Record Journal , Volume 23 (2): 3 – Jun 1, 1993

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1993 Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited
ISSN
0817-3907
eISSN
1833-3575
DOI
10.1177/183335839302300206
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Abstract

Principal Diagnosis and Episodes of Care: Turning the Corner in Patient Information Kathy Eagar and Kerry Innes Introduction Given the importance of this issue for the medical record profession, it is worth briefly reiteratingthe case for and against. In 1992 the Australian Health Ministers Advisory The case against Eagar and Innes' recommendations: Council (AHMAC) accepted a series of recommendations from the National Patient Abstracting and Coding Project 1. DRGs are being introduced into Australia for (NPACP). Two sets of those recommendations signal a payment purposes. The resource consumption change in the way patient data is collected in Australia. The definition is' more closely allied with the purposes of paper discusses the impact of that change. DRGs. 2. The health system is more interested in resource Background consumption than in reason for admission. The Eagar and" Innes (1992) report to the Commonwealth 3. This definition more closely matches principal addressed the identification and definition of source data procedure. items required for the Australian National Diagnosis Related Group (AN-DRG) classification. Contained in that 4. This is the definition currently used by the majority three volume report were a series of recommendations of states and territories. It is easier for South which

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Australian Medical Record JournalSAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1993

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