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Inpatient length of stay measures: Statistical and conceptual issues

✍ Scribed by William H. Fisher; Fred B. Altaffer

Book ID
112388669
Publisher
Springer US
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
580 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-3289

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A change in payment mechanism for inpatient care from per diem to per episode creates two incentives - a marginal and an average price effect - to change length of stay. The decrease in marginal price per day to zero should reduce the length of stay, while an increase in average price per inpatient