Selected 2009 Conference Papers Published on Bio Med Central (BMC)

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 2009 Conference were published in BMC Health Services Research Journal (Volume 9, Supplement 1). They can be found at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9?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.

Published 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.  Selected 2007 abstracts can also be found in BMC through the “Supplements” link on the journal’s homepage.