Evaluation of DPC using benchmarking

Abstract

In a DPC environment, maintaining stability of quality of medical care and hospital management is an ever-increasing requirement these days. We have carried out a joint research on the evaluation of DPC by means of benchmarking with data in the ZENSHAREN-fixed-point-observation-system. One of our findings is that benchmarking of cost analysis data and clinical indicators make it possible to draw up a standard treatment plan, that is, a standard critical path. Furthermore, the accumulation of this kind of data allows DPC to be evaluated as a system.