Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related groups. Many countries are adopting or actively promoting ABF. We assessed the effect of ABF on key measures po...

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Main Authors: Karen S Palmer, Thomas Agoritsas, Danielle Martin, Taryn Scott, Sohail M Mulla, Ashley P Miller, Arnav Agarwal, Andrew Bresnahan, Afeez Abiola Hazzan, Rebecca A Jeffery, Arnaud Merglen, Ahmed Negm, Reed A Siemieniuk, Neera Bhatnagar, Irfan A Dhalla, John N Lavis, John J You, Stephen J Duckett, Gordon H Guyatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109975
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