Reference criteria for short-stay hospital review
By: prepared by the Management Committee, AAPSRO Criteria Development Project
Contributors: American Association of Professional Standards Review Organizations; United States. Health Care Financing Administration
Publisher: American Association of Professional Standards Review Organizations
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Potomac, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Hospital utilization; Handbooks, manuals; Length of stay; Evaluation; Patient monitoring; Planning; Hospitals; Admission and discharge; Medical care; Needs assessment; Professional standards review organizations (Medicine)
Other titles: Reference criteria short-stay hospital review.
Notes: "June 1981."

Funded by the Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare 500-77-0037.
Table of contents: title: History; title: Acknowledgements; title: Format changes rationale; title: Concepts; title: Acute level of care vs. diagnosis specific criteria; title: Automatic admission; title: MCEs; title: General reasons for extending length of stay; title: Changing level-of-care patterns and discharge planning review; title: Surgical criteria; title: Coding; title: Suggestions to local PSRO criteria committees; title: To review coordinator: how to use the reference criteria for screening in concurrent admission review; title: How to use the reference criteria for screening in continued stay review; title: Admission review protocol; title: Continued stay review protocol; title: Examples of acute level of care criteria; title: Intensity of service, severity of illness, discharge screening criteria; title: Reference automatic admission certification list; title: General reasons for extending the length of stay; title: Examples of guidelines for determining need for skilled nursing care; title: Examples of specific services which are unskilled; title: List of surgical procedures for which criteria have been developed by the A.M.A.; title: List of reference criteria sets.