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International Diagnosis Related Groups

A patient classification system designed to group hospital patients into classes, which are clinically homogenous with regard to the consumption of hospital resources.

For more information on DRGs and on the country specific systems, please visit the Web sites mentioned below:

Country System Link
Australia AR-DRG Australian Department of Health and Ageing

The Definition Manual for AR-DRG 4.1

Development of the AR-DRG classification,
Version 4.0, Volume 1

National Hospital Cost Data Collection,
Cost Weights for AN-DRG 97/98

AR-DRG Grouper Testing

AN-DRG Clinical Casemix Committee of Australia
Austria LKF Bundesministerium für Soziale Sicherheit und Generationen
- Staatssekretariat für Gesundheit (pdf)
Belgium APR-DRG
Bulgaria Project: AP-DRG
Canada CMG Zentrum für Informatik und wirtschaftliche Medizin:
Case Mix Groups Canada
Czech Republic AP-DRG Projekt DRG
Denmark NordDRG Ministry of Health - DRG Unit
Europe Patient Classification Systems Europe

Journal of patient classification systems

Zentrum für Informatik und wirtschaftliche Medizin:
Papers on DRG systems:

France GHM -> now GHS Tarification à l'activité
Germany DRG DRG website of the Sickness Funds and Hospitals

German DRG Institute: InEK - MedInfoWeb

DE - DRG

my DRG

More DRG Links

DRG themes and texts

MedPortal

Greece Project: HCFA-DRG
Hungary HBC Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs
Ireland HCFA-DRG 12.0
Italy HCFA-DRG 14.0 DRG Online

Regional health services

Japan DPC
Netherlands DBC http://www.dbczorg.nl/
New-Zealand New Zealand Health Information Service
Norway NordDRG http://odin.dep.no/shd/proj/isf
Portugal HCFA-DRG 15.0
Rumania Project: AP-DRG Romanian DRG Website
Scandinavia NordDRG NordDRG - The Nordic DRG System
Spain Different projects
Sweden NordDRG National Board of Health and Welfare: NordDRG
Switzerland AP-DRG http://www.zmt.ch/fr/index.htm
UK HRG, HBG Department of Health: Financial Reforms
USA HCFA-DRG Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:

National Technical Information Service

SR-DRG Coding Solutions for the Health Care Industry

Description SR-DRG

APR-DRG APR-DRG information