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RUG-III and resource allocation
— comparing the relationship of direct care time with patient characteristics in five countries | | Author(s) | G Iain Carpenter, N Ikegami, Gunnar Ljunggren |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, Supplement 2, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 61-65 |
| Keywords | Patients ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Grant allocation ; Comparison ; Cross national surveys ; United States of America ; Japan ; Spain ; Sweden ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Resource use by different types of patients is of increasing interest to health care services all over the world. Case-mix systems grouping together people with similar patterns of resource use have been developed to examine these questions. Resource Utilization Groups version III (RUG-III) was developed in the US to study the issue in the care of older people and has been validated in a number of countries. This paper synthesises and compares the results of RUG-III validation studies performed in the US, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and England and Wales. Percentage of time given by trained nurses and mean nursing time per patient was compared overall and between selected RUG-III groups. Mean time per patient ranged from 84.4 min per day in Japan to 155.6 min in England and Wales. Trained nurse time per patient ranged from 7.5% of total time in the US to 53.2% in England and Wales. The inter-group relationship was very similar in all countries. The RUG-III system appears robust in a wide variety of settings and countries. Future research should examine the relationship between skill-mix and total time spent with patients with respect to outcome and quality of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122425 A |
| Classmark | LF: IK: 4C: QCG: 48: 3K: 7T: 7DT: 76S: 76P: 8 |
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