Healthcare Resource Group
Healthcare Resource Group
The Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) is a system used in the United Kingdom to categorize patients' care by grouping together diagnoses, procedures, age, sex and length of hospital stay. This system is used to determine how much National Health Service (NHS) funding each hospital receives.
Pronunciation
Healthcare Resource Group: /ˈhɛlθkɛər rɪˈsɔːrs ɡruːp/
Etymology
The term "Healthcare Resource Group" is derived from the words "healthcare" (referring to the maintenance or improvement of health via prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people), "resource" (a supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively), and "group" (a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together).
Related Terms
- Diagnosis Related Group: A statistical system of classifying any inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment.
- Payment by Results: A type of public policy mechanism adopted in the United Kingdom where providers are paid for the quality of outcomes achieved.
- National Tariff Payment System: A set of prices and rules used by providers of NHS care and commissioners to deliver the most efficient, fair and sustainable system of payment for services.
- Clinical Coding: A standardized method of accurately describing a patient's episode of care in their health record.
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