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Disease Staging Clinical Criteria
For further information contact: Daniel.Louis@jefferson.edu
Disease Staging is a clinically-based classification of severity of illness.
Disease Staging has been used in numerous health services research projects
in the U.S. and internationally as well as for medical education and quality
of care analysis projects at Jefferson.. Joseph S. Gonnella, M.D. is the editor
and Clara A. Callahan, M.D., Marvin Vincent E. Gozum, M.D. and Daniel Z. Louis
are associate editors of the 5th edition of this text. (MEDSTAT Group, Ann Arbor,
Mich.). Many Jefferson Medical College faculty members contributed clinical
input to this useful reference work
Selected Publications:
Louis DZ, Yuen EJ, Braga M, Cicchetti A, Rabinowitz C, Laine C, Gonnella JS.
Impact of a DRG-based hospital financing system on quality and outcome of care
in Italy. Health Services Research, 1999; 34(1):405-415.
Louis DZ, Taroni F, Yuen EJ, Umesato Y, Gonnella JS. Patterns of hospital care
and physician perspectives from an Italian, Japanese and USA hospital. American
Journal of Medical Quality, 1996; 123-134.
Gonnella JS, Louis DZ. Physicians' responsibilities and the evaluation of outcomes
of medical care. In: LM Markson and DB Nash, eds., Accountability and Quality
in Health Care: The New Responsibility. Oakbrook, IL: Joint Commission of
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, 1995.
Gonnella JS, Louis DZ, Gozum ME, eds. Clinical Criteria for Disease Staging,
4th ed. Ann Arbor, Mich: The MEDSTAT Group, 1994.
Gonnella JS, Louis DZ, Zeleznik C, Turner BJ. The problem of late hospitalization:
A quality and cost issue. Academic Medicine, 1990; 65(5):314-319.
Gonnella JS, Hornbrook MC and Louis DZ. Staging of disease: A case-mix measurement.
JAMA, 1984; 251:637-644.
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