A description of expensive and long-staying patients
By: Sally Trude, Grace M. Carter ; prepared for the Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Contributors: Carter, Grace M.; United States. Health Care Financing Administration; Rand Corporation
Series: A Rand note -- N-2998-HCFA.; Rand note -- N-2998-HCFA.
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Diagnosis related groups; Diagnosis-Related Groups; Hospital care; Length of Stay; Economics; Long-term care of the sick; Costs; Medicare; Hospital utilization; Chronically ill; Length of stay; Institutional care
Notes: Supported by Health Care Financing Administration cooperative agreement no. 99-C-98489/9-04        .

"October 1989."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 47).