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Assessing a financial incentive for reducing length of stay of psychiatric inpatients: Implications for financing psychiatric services
(2014)Swiss Medical WeeklyQUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: Restricted government budgets are forcing countries to implement more efficient health measures. Unlike in somatic medicine, the process of evaluating payment systems in psychiatry in Switzerland is ongoing. A pilot approach in one psychiatric hospital, here called “new remuneration system (NRS)”, was introduced to better control length of stay (LOS) by combining a lump sum with degressive daily rates. This is a ...Journal Article