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DRG-driven change in burn wound management: a success story
D J Smith1, M C Robson, T Meltzer
1University of Michigan Medical Center, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ann Arbor 48109-0340.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
We have devised an algorithm employing the exclusive use of biosynthetic dressing (Biobrane) to treat the less extensive burn wounds of patients under DRG 460. This protocol has allowed us to decrease the hospital stay of these patients by 46 percent and turn this patient group from a deficit for the hospital to a substantial profit.