The Globalization of Managerial Innovation in Health Care (Paperback, 1st)

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Thomas d'Aunno, John R. Kimberly and Gerard de Pouvourville; 1. Origins of DRGs in the United States: a technical, political and cultural story Jon Chilingerian; 2. From Casemix in the United Kingdom: from development to plans Steve Sutch; 3. Casemix implementation in Portugal Ceu Mateus; 4. From naive hope to realistic conviction: DRGs in Sweden Rickard Lindquist; 5. Casemix in Denmark Annette Soerberg Roed, Hanne Sjuneson and Poul Erik Hansen; 6. DRGS in France Xaviere Michelot and Jean Marie Rodrigues; 7. Introduction and use of DRGs in Belgium M.-C. Closon, F. H. Roger France and J. Perelman; 8. DRG-finals in Germany: introduction of a comprehensive, prospective DRG-payment system until 2009 Gunther Neubauer; 9. Casemix in Switzerland Herve Guillain; 10. The first decade of Case Mix in Italy Paolo Tedeschi; 11. Casemix development and implementation in Australia S. J. Duckett; 12. Diagnosis procedure combination: the Japanese approach to Casemix Shinya Matsuda; 13. Casemix in Singapore Chien Earn Lee and Lim Eng Kok; 14. Experiences with the application of the DRG principle in Hungary Julia Nagy, Csaba Dozsa and Imre Boncz; 15. Case Mix systems ? past, present, and future: rhe Canadian wxperience Sandra Mitchell and Andre Lalonde; 16. Conclusions: the global diffusion of Casemix Thomas D'Aunno, John R. Kimberly and Gerard de Pouvourville; Index.