Welcome to the Website of the EuroDRG Project
This website serves to inform the general public about the progress of the EuroDRG project. It is also a platform to facilitate information exchange among project partners.
Dates and events
17. November 2011: EuroDRG final conference, Berlin, Germany
At the EuroDRG final conference, which was held in Berlin, 17 November 2011, the main results of the EuroDRG research project were presented and discussed with policy-makers, researchers and stakeholders from Europe and beyond. During this conference, the book 'Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe - Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals' was officially launched. The book is intended to contribute to the emergence of a `common language' that will facilitate communication between researchers and policy-makers interested in improving the functioning and resourcing of the acute hospital sector.[Programme] [Gallery link for Internet Explorer users]
Session 1 - DRGs in Europe: Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals?
- Understanding DRGs in Europe. The EuroDRG project [PDF]
- The development of European patient classification systems [PDF]
- What do we know about the impact of DRGs on quality and efficiency? [PDF]
Session 2 - European DRG systems – how they work and perform for ten episodes of care
- Patient classification and DRG-based payments in Europe [PDF]
- The ability of DRG systems to explain variations in resource consumption [PDF]
- The relationship of quality and costs in European hospitals [PDF]
Panel discussion 1 – Implications for Europe
- System of Health Accounts 2011: product classifications [PDF]
- EuroDRG – SwissDRG: Implications for Europe? [PDF]
- The Jednorodne Grupy Pacjentów – Polish experiences with DRGs [PDF]
Panel discussion 2 – Implications for countries considering DRGs
- Health Care Payment Reform in China [PDF]
- Serbia and DRG [PDF]
Recent publications
Geissler A, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Quentin W, Busse R (2012):DRG-Systeme in Europa: Anreize, Ziele und Unterschiede in zwölf Ländern.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt – Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz, Volume 55, Number 5, 633-642, DOI: 10.1007/s00103-012-1473-8 [Link]
O’Reilly J, Busse R, Häkkinen U, Or Z, Street A, Wiley M (2012):
Paying for hospital care: the experience with implementing activity-based funding in five European countries.
Health Economics, Policy and Law 7(1): 73-101, DOI: 10.1017/S1744133111000314[Link]
Busse R, Geissler A, Quentin W, Wiley M (eds.) (2011):
Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals.
Maidenhead: Open University Press and WHO Regional Office for Europe.[here to buy] [here free pdf]
Quentin W, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Geissler A, Busse R (2011):
Appendectomy and Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs): Patient Classification and Hospital Reimbursement in 11 European Countries.
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, DOI 10.1007/s00423-011-0877-5.[here free pdf]
Scheller-Kreinsen D, Quentin W, Busse R, and the EuroDRG group (2011):
DRG-based hospital payment systems and technological innovations in 12 European countries
Value in Health, 14(8), 1166-1172.[Link]
Recent presentations
24. January 2012: European Summit 2012, Brussels| Belgium
- Diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments [PDF] [Video] (password: eurosummit2012)
23. January 2012: 3rd Annual Medical Device Reimbursement Conference, Brussels| Belgium
- DRG-based hospital payment and medical innovation in Europe: Results of the EuroDRG project [PDF]
09. November 2011: Centre for Health and Social Economics (CHESS) Seminar: How to pay providers: Does money follow patient or patient money?, Helsinki | Finland
- DRG-based hospital payment - Experiences from 12 European countries [PDF]
08. November 2011: World Bank Seminar, Washington | USA
- Diagnosis Related Groups (in Europe): Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals [PDF]
21. October 2011: 27th PCSI Conference, Montreal, Quebec | Canada
- The EuroDRG project: comparing European casemix systems [PDF]
11. July 2011: 8th World Congress on Health Economics, Toronto | Canada
- The EuroDRG project: DRG systems and determinants of hospital care across Europe [PDF]
- Performance of DRG systems across Europe: a quantitative assessment [PDF]
- The relationship between quality of care and hospital costs in Europe. [PDF]
- The EuroDRG Project [PDF]
20. June 2011: Changing the payment system for hospital care in Bulgaria to improve equity and efficiency, Sofia | Bulgaria
- DRGs as a financing tool: the European experience [PDF]
03. June 2011: EFORT European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology congress, Copenhagen | Denmark
- Determinants of hospital costs and performance variation of hip replacement - A comparative analysis across Europe [PDF]
26./27. April 2011: The World Bank Workshop - Health Financing Reforms to Improve Efficiency and Quality of Care: International Experience, Evidence and Prospects for the Russian Federation, Moscow | Russia
- Implementing health financing reforms: DRG-based hospital payments in Germany [PDF]
- Реализация реформы финансирования здравоохранения:Оплата стационарной помощи: система диагностически связанных групп в Германии [PDF]
21./22. March 2011: German Association of Health Economics conference, Bayreuth | Germany
- DRG systems in Europe: How similar, how divergent? A structured approach and first answers [PDF]
- Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) systems and
similar Patient Classification Systems in Europe [PDF]
- Appendektomie und Diagnosis
Related Groups (DRGs) [PDF]
- DRGs and cost accounting across Europe:
Which is driving which? [PDF]
- DRG-type payment systems and technological innovation:
reimbursement approaches in 11 European countries [PDF]