Achieving operational efficiencies using a DRG-based tracer approach.
Hospitals can use a DRG-based tracer approach to analyze and correct inefficiencies in the flow of care delivery. The approach works best when the analysis is focused on a high-volume DRG. In the case of Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, this approach was instrumental in improving efficiencies of care processes associated with DRG 143: chest pain.
Gottlieb
Jack
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Sinai Health System, Chicago, USA.
Khawaja
Aalia
A
Teitelbaum
Karen
K
Channing
Alan
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