European approaches to patient classification systems
Subtitle: Methods and applications based on disease severity, resource needs, and consequences
By: edited by Reiner Leidl, Peter Potthoff and Detlef Schwefel
Series: Health Systems Research
Publisher: Springer-Verlag; Springer
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berlin
Number of pages: 138
Table of contents: title: Introduction - R. Leidl, P Potthoff, and D. Schwefel.; title: Part I: Assessment of Acute and Chronic Diseases: Severity and Resource Needs; title: --- Concepts to Classify Patients by Disease Severity and Resource Needs - R. Leidl and J.M Rodrigues; title: --- Patient Classification Systems: Overview of Experiments and Applications in Europe – M.M. Wiley; title: --- Roles of Case-Mix Measures in Managing Use of Resources - G. Bevan and C. Price; title: --- Using Diagnosis-Related Groups for Performance Evaluation of Hospital Care – F. Taroni; title: --- Severity Classification of Chronic Diseases for Rehabilitation Purposes – P. Potthoff, R. Diehl, and A. Schrapp; title: Part II: Assessment of the Consequences of Chronic Diseases: Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps; title: --- The International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps of the World Health Organization – P.H.N. Wood; title: --- Survey and Classification of Tools for the Assessment of Disease. Consequences in the European Community Countries - A. Colvez and M. Labbe; title: --- Experience of the European Region of the World Health Organization in Measurement of Disease Impact – M. C. Thuriaux and D. Robinson; title: --- Report on the Workshop "Measurement of the Severity of Chronic Conditions", Munich, 28-30 April 1987 – P. Potthoff and D. Schwefel