Optimizing Hospital-wide Patient Scheduling: Early Classification of Diagnosis-related Groups Through Machine Learning

Diagnosis—related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services. The assignment of a patient to a DRG can be distinguished into billing— and operations—driven DRG classification. The topic of this monograph is operations—driven DRG classification, in which DRGs of inpatients are employed to improve contribution margin—based patient scheduling decisions. In the first part, attribute selection and classification techniques are evaluated in order to increase e...