title: DRGs and psychiatry: work in progress.
abstract: A study is presented in which a number of variables describing psychiatric patients hospitalized within Veterans Administration Medical Centers are being investigated as potentially more predictive discriminators of resource consumption than the currently formulated diagnostic-related groups.
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States