
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jackson, Terri 
A1  - Sevil, Petia 
T1  - Problems in counting and paying for multidisciplinary outpatient clinics
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
SP  - 38
EP  - 54
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH970038 
N2  - Policy-makers have always found it problematic to formulate fair and consistentcounting rules for public hospital outpatient activities. In the context of output-based funding, such rules have consequences which can affect patient care. This paper reviews the rationale for organising multidisciplinary clinics and reports on a series of focus groups convened in four Melbourne teaching hospitals to consider funding policy for such clinics. It discusses issues of targeting outpatient services, along with implications for payment policy. It evaluates counting rules in terms of intended andunintended consequences in the context of Victoria?s introduction of output-basedfunding for outpatient services. 
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