Comparison between all patients refined diagnosis related groups with the centre for medicare and medicaid services diagnosis related groups

Alberto Pilotto¹, Marilisa Franceschi², Mauro Di Bari³, Franco Rengo⁴, Roberto Bernabei⁵, Luca Lorenzoni⁶, Niccolò Marchionni³ and Antonio Greco²

¹Geriatric Unit ULSS 16, S. Antonio Hospital,Padua,and Geriatric Research Laboratory, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG) Italy.

²Geriatric Unit IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.

³Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery,University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.

⁴Geriatric Unit, University “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy.

⁵Department of Geriatrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

⁶  Health Department, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.