title: DRGs: program evaluation and change.
abstract: DRGs have brought many organizational changes. Detailed here are the central features of program evaluation in the DRG-dominated health care environment: when program evaluation should occur, the criteria used in evaluation, and five stages in that process.
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D004526:Efficiency; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D009934:Organization and Administration; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States