title: Using DRGs for competitive positioning and practical business planning.
abstract: For hospitals to survive in today's highly competitive environment, administrators must understand their markets and develop products and services more appropriate to the demands of their customers. DRGs can be seen as individual products, and can serve as the basis for practical business planning.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D004465:Economic Competition; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009775:Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques