WORKING PAPER 9 MISs and DRGs as Policy Instruments in Hospital Finance

The Centre for Health Program Evaluation (CHPE) is a research and teaching orga isation established in 1990 to: · undertake academic and applied research into health programs, health systems and current policy issues; · develop appropriate evaluation methodologies; and · promote the teaching of health economics and health program evaluation, in order to increase the supply of trained specialists and to improve the level of understanding in the health community. The Centre comprises two independent research units, the Health Economics Unit (HEU