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D W Light

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PubMed1986

Finding psychiatric diagnosis-related groups that work: a call for research.

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are under consideration as a way to pay hospitals for psychiatric care. Yet psychiatric DRGs account for only 3% of the variation in how long patients stay in the hospital. This nearly random variation means that psychiatrists may be working under a payment system that will have little relation to clinical reality. The authors identify important flaws in the current psychiatric DRGs and describe an alternative approach that promises to reflect clinical reality much more accurately.

Diagnosis-Related Groups↗
PubMed1986

Social medicine vs professional dominance: the German experience.

This article describes the efforts by German workers' groups and pioneering social physicians to design health care services oriented to prevention and cost-effective treatment. Jews played a key role in developing these prototypes of today's health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). The growing success of these services threatened private practitioners in a number of ways. They formed a trade union and took militant action. Stage by stage, the profession asserted its dominance, culminating in an alliance with the National Socialists and Hitler to take over these services and to purge them of socialist and Jewish physicians. Medical societies assisted Hitler in his policies of "purification," and the health care delivery systems shifted from being local, patient-centered, and health-oriented to being national, physician-centered, and focused on curing illness. After World War II, these changes were not reversed as part of denazification, and 40 years later, social medicine has yet to recover.

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PubMed1983

Is competition bad?

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Consumer Behavior↗