Financial impact of accurate discharge coding in a liaison psychiatry service.

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Jordan, Iain
Barry, Helen
Clancy, Maurice
O'Toole, Desmond
Machale, Siobhan
Affiliation
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Education and Research Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland. iainjordan@gmail.com
Issue Date
2012-12
MeSH
Clinical Coding
Diagnosis-Related Groups
Hospital Costs
Humans
Ireland
Patient Discharge
Psychiatric Department, Hospital
Retrospective Studies

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Financial impact of accurate discharge coding in a liaison psychiatry service. 2012, 73 (6):476-8 J Psychosom Res
Journal
Journal of psychosomatic research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/292492
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2012.09.017
PubMed ID
23148819
Abstract
Previous research has shown that patients seen by liaison psychiatry services are a complex and expensive patient group and that the psychiatric co-morbidities of hospital inpatients are poorly attested at discharge for assignment to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of discharge coding in a neuropsychiatry liaison population. We also aimed to establish whether or not, had the correct diagnosis been assigned, additional funding would have been allocated to the hospital.
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Article
Language
en
ISSN
1879-1360
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