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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.
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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.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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.
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