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John Devereaux Thompson
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- Familiarly known as Tommy, John Devereaux Thompson was a nurse, health administration educator, and health services researcher. Thompson along with Robert B. Fetter developed Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) as a tool to standardize hospital cases for studies of quality and cost, subsequently changing the way the nation's hospitals were reimbursed when Medicare adopted DRGs for its prospective payment system (PPS). [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Thompson, John Devereaux]
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