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Table 1 Calculation activities from 2004 to 2011, Source [6, 22, 2531]

From: Assessing DRG cost accounting with respect to resource allocation and tariff calculation: the case of Germany

*G-DRG- system

Number of DRGs

Number of specialized additional services

Number of calculating hospitals

Number of calculating hospitals excluded

Calculating hospitals (%)

Cases after plausibility check

% of cases surviving plausibility checks

Fraction of all German inpatient cases (%)

2004

824

26

144

n/a

8.1

2,395,410

84.8

13.5

2005

878

71

148

n/a

8.5

2,283,874

83.4

12.8

2006

954

82

214

n/a

12.0

2,851,819

80.7

16.1

2007

1,082

105

263

38

14.9

2,863,115

67.5

16.3

2008

1,137

115

249

28

14.3

2,811,669

72.1

15.8

2009

1,192

127

251

33

14.5

3,075,378

70.3

16.9

2010

1,200

143

253

28

14.8

3,257,497

71.8

17.5

2011

1,194

146

263

16

15.9

3,501,515

71.9

18.5

  1. *calculation data always from previous year (e.g., G-DRG system 2011 based on 2010 data).