title: Automated utilization review is timely, accurate, efficient.
abstract: Federal utilization review regulations require that hospitals establish admission and extended stay certification processes and conduct medical care evaluation studies. The computerized review system in use at Deaconess Hospital, St. Louis, has satisfied these regulations with minimum expenditure of time, effort, and money while insuring maximum accuracy and timeliness and consistency of reporting.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D005249:Fees and Charges; D006760:Hospitalization; D007902:Length of Stay; D011366:Professional Review Organizations; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review