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MEDICAL CARE<br />

Febiuary 1980, Vol. XVIII, No. 2. Supplemteilnt<br />

3. Interpretation of the DRGs in Health-Care Studies<br />

THE DRGs AS CONSTRUCTED met the original<br />

rese:trch objectives; that is, they provide<br />

a detinition of case types by relative<br />

output ::tilization, where the definition of<br />

case type ¿has the fillowing properties:<br />

1. The varialbles iste in ti the deinition ol<br />

a case are li¡¡¡ited( t tthose reflirring to the<br />

patient's ;at ilre 'tiillilllll

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