case mix


case

 [kās] a particular instance of a disease or other problem; sometimes used incorrectly to designate the patient with the disease.case history the collected data concerning an individual, the family, and environment; it includes the medical history and any other information that may be useful in analyzing and diagnosing the case or for instructional or research purposes.case method a type of nursing care delivery system; see nursing practice.case mix the groups of patients requiring similar tests, procedures, and resources that are treated at a particular hospital. Case mix is a way to define a hospital's production and has been identified as a major factor in differing costs among hospitals and among individual patients.

case mix

A term which, as used in UK health planning circles, refers to the sum total of the diagnoses (diseases) present in a population, and high- and low-resource therapies required to manage them, considered as a single unit for the purpose of resource analysis and allocation planning.

case mix

Managed care The characteristics–age, gender and health status–of the population served by a health system or physician's office in a given period of time, which are classified by disease, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures performed, method of payment, duration of hospitalization, and intensity and type of services provided; in the US, a hospital's CM is based on the diagnosis-related groups. See Demographics, DRGs.

case mix

(kās miks) The relative numbers of various types of patients being treated as categorized by disease-related groups, severity of illness, rate of consumption of resources, and other indicators; used as a tool for managing and planning health care services.