Acute and transitional care or rehabilitation? Retrospective analysis of discharge planning from a municipal hospital in Switzerland

• Main Authors: Lara Kollbrunner (Author), Michael Rost (Author), Insa Koné (Author), Bettina Zimmermann (Author), Yvonne Padrutt (Author), Tenzin Wangmo (Author), Bernice Elger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Due to rising health care costs, in 2012 Switzerland introduced SwissDRG, a reimbursement system for hospitals based on lump sum per case. To circumvent possible negative consequences like reduction in length of stay, acute and transitional care (ATC) was anchored into the law (F...