Japan Journal of Medical Informatics
Online ISSN : 2188-8469
Print ISSN : 0289-8055
ISSN-L : 0289-8055
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What’s Visible by DPC?
S Matsuda
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2007 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 153-156

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 The objective of medical services is to provide quality care for the citizen. It requires the information for quality evaluation. It is rather difficult to establish definitive indicators for qualities of medical services, thus relative indicators will be preferable. In order to compare the quality of services, the common basis is necessary. DPC is such a basis. The most important point is that DPC makes it possible to compare the performance of different medical facilities. This situation facilitates the managerial revolution of hospitals. The keywords of DPC introduction are standardization of medical information, transparency and accountability. The real objective of DPC project is to make quality of medical services “visible”.
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