Developing a casemix classification for mental health services: summary
This booklet summarises the findings of the Mental Health Classification and Service Costs Project, a study conducted under the National Mental Health Strategy. The aim of the project was to develop the first version of a national casemix classification for specialist mental health services.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Overview
- Background
- Project aim and scope
Study methodology- Overview of the dataset
- Episode definitions used for class finding
- Variation in the cost data
- Variation in the clinical measures
- The MH-CASC Classification Model
- Summary of patient cost drivers
- Comparative performance of the MH-CASC Classification Model
- The role of provider factors
- Implications for funding and National Mental Health Strategy
- Further development of the classification
- Suggestions for funding model design
- Strengthening the signal
- The MH-CASC Project Team
- Terminology
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Bill Buckingham, Philip Burgess, Shane Solomon, Jane Pirkis & Kathy Eagar
Shane Solomon & Associates Pty Ltd
August 1998
Report of a project funded by the Department of Health & Family Services under the National Mental Health Strategy and the Casemix Development Program
ISBN 0 642 36730 2
The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.
Published by the Commonwealth Department of Health & Family Services, Canberra
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