Edited by
Reinhard Busse, Alexander Geissler,
Wilm Quentin, Miriam Wiley

2011

This book has global application; it will find an eager audience among policy leaders, technicians, hospitals, and physicians. In Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, in which DRGs have been implemented since the 1980s, there is still little or no comparison three decades later across countries, in terms of key building blocks, and whether or how variations in design make a difference. How many categories are enough, and when are there too many?