PCSI is proud to sponsor the publication of selected abstracts from the Annual Case Mix Conference for publication in BMC.
The top 25 abstracts from the PCSI 2008 Conference were published in BMC Health Services Research (Vol 8, Suppl 1). They can be found at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8?issue=S1
• The Prize for Best Paper was awarded to "Hospital case-mix funding and the necessity to adjust for socio-economic status" by Julian Perelman and Marie-Christine Closon.
• The Prize for Best Poster was awarded to "Treatment- and diagnosis-related benchmarking using analyses of hospital data - a dynamic information tool" by Nina Pfeffer and Alexander Ganjeizadeh-Rouhani
• The Casemix Innovation Prize was awarded to "Financing within the scope of the integrated Disease Management - Pay for Comprehensive Price" by Filipa Moreira, Anabela Candeias, Ana Escoval, Paolo Espiga and Alexandre Diniz
The link to the supplement is permanently accessible via the [Supplements] link on the journal's homepage or, currently, via the "Latest supplements" section on the homepage.
Publication of the supplement will also be announced on the BioMed Central homepage.
Selected 2007 Case mix conference papers were published by BMC. The full content of the supplement be found at BMC.
The 2007 abstracts were published in full text and PDF versions and the supplement listing were sent to PubMed for inclusion.