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The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(2):215; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki073
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Letters to the Editor

On the use of administrative databases to support planning activities: a comment

Willem Aelvoet

fax +32 2 210 64 00, Email: willem.aelvoet@health.fgov.be

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Sir,

The paper by Fantini et al.1 rightly stresses the importance in health care planning of identifying centres that treat more severe (complex) cases. However, in their evaluation of the ability of two software packages, Medicare Diagnosis Related Groups (Medicare DRG) and All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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