Understanding the contribution of general medical services to acute inpatient care in Victorian public hospitals.

Both DRG-based data and discharge unit-based data indicate that general medicine is the largest provider of acute multiday inpatient care in Victorian hospitals. The estimate of contribution of general medicine differed between the two datasets as DRG data likely over-represents the role of other specialties possibly due to assumptions regarding specialty management of varying groups of diagnoses. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.