Optimizing Hospital-Wide Patient Scheduling: Early Classification of Diagnosis-Related Groups Through Machine Learning

by Daniel Gartner

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services. The assignment of a patient to a DRG can be distinguished into billing- and operations-driven DRG classification. The topic of this monograph is operations-driven DRG classification, in which DRGs of inpatients are employed to improve contribution margin-based patient scheduling decisions. In the first part, attribute selection and classification techniques...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319040650
• ISBN13: 9783319040653
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"