Evaluating to Beijing diagnosis related groups

Objective To evaluate the performance of diagnosis-related groups,Beijing version (BJ-DRGs) which were locally developed in Beijing.Method A total of 1.3 million inpatient records from 149 hospitals in Beijing in 2008 were drawn from Beijing Public Information Center.Coefficient of variation (CV) was used to measure the performance of DRGs system.Results BJ-DRGs produced the best CV results for expenditure.Conclusions Under Beijing's medical information condition,BJ-DRGs produced good performance. Key words: Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) ;  Performance evaluation;  International comparison