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Step One: You are a researcher and collecting statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on the top ten MS-DRGs in the nation. In order to complete this, you must visit the AHRQ site from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).  (https://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/). Once at the site you will follow these steps to generate the report you need: 

  • Choose National Statistics on All Stays
  • Select you are a Researcher, medical professional
  • Select Rank order specific diagnoses or procedures
  • Select most recent year
  • Select Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG)
  • Select Top 10
  • Select By hospital charges, mean
  • Select All patients in all hospitals
  • Your results will then display in a table that must be converted into a Pareto chart. 

If you choose Excel, you can easily create the Pareto chart using Excel).

Step Three: Analyze why the top-ranked DRG is the most costly for hospitals even though it does not have the most patients. Use resources to help you write a one-page summary in APA format. Include a reference page for any resources used. You will submit your Pareto chart with the following data elements: Rank, DRG (name not required), Total number of discharges, and charges (mean) and your one-page summary analysis.

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