When John Thompson and I first began talking about finding a way to
measure and cost the output of hospitals in the 1960s. we really
had no concept of the need for this kind of result. In fact. if we
had listened to others in the health services research community.
we would rrever have begun or persisted in the task. But it seemed
important to us to begin to understand what up until then seemed
unexplainable - the rather strange cost behavior of hospitals. We
had the benefit of Professor Martin Feld stein's observation that
case-mix was certainly an important factor. but we had literally no
guidance on how to make some sense out of the very large number of
illnesses that beset the human race. and the very large number of
different processes that obtain in our hospitals as they attempt to
cope with those illnesses. We were fortunate to find a small number
of curious and capable graduate students to join us in this effort.
for without them we would not have had a chance of success. While
many contrib uted to the ultimate outcome. it is important to
single out Ronald E. Mills. Richard F. Averill. Youngsoo Shin. and
Jean L. Freeman for their efforts over many years. The
diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) constitute a way of identifying the
normal output of hospitals in a consistent and exhaustive manner."
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