title: The use of Healthcare Resource Groups in managing clinical resources.
abstract: Healthcare Resource Groups are a way of aggregating together patient treatment episodes that are similar in their resource consumption. They can be derived from existing minimum dataset information. In England, they are being used to provide costs for contract pricing and can also be used to provide comparisons of the efficiency of use of hospital beds. This article describes their development and construction and discusses the potential use and further development.
authors.affiliation: Homerton Hospital, London.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Sanderson
mesh_terms: D001509:Bed Occupancy; D003284:Contract Services; D003663:Decision Trees; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017050:Episode of Care; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008722:Methods; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom