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Table 2 Top five Case Mix Groups*

From: Does implementation of a hospitalist program in a Canadian community hospital improve measures of quality of care and utilization? an observational comparative analysis of hospitalists vs. traditional care providers

  Top 5 CMG Plus, from 2007 to 2010 (n) Top 5 CMG, from 2003 to 2007 (n)
Traditional-FP - Palliative care (36) - Simple pneumonia and pleurisy (184)
N = 2911 - COPD (31) - Specific cerebrovascular disorders except transient is chemic attacks (178)
-Viral/unspecified pneumonia (28) - Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive    disease (140)
- General symptoms/signs (26) - COPD (114)
- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (23) - Chronic bronchitis (106)
FP-Hospitalist - COPD (660) - COPD (470)
N = 16 475 - Palliative care (455) - Chronic bronchitis (434)
- Viral/unspecified pneumonia (370) - Other specified aftercare (405)
- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (352) - Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive    disease (404)
- Ischemic event of central nervous system (312) - Heart failure (401)
GIM-Hospitalist - COPD (237) - AMI without cardiac catheter without specified cardiac    conditions (12)
N = 2135 - Heart failure without cardiac catheter (221) - Arrhythmia (8)
- Viral/unspecified pneumonia (89) - Heart failure (7)
- Diabetes (77) - Diabetes (6)
- Myocardial infarction/shock/arrest without cardiac catheter (77) - Chest pain (6)
Other IM - Myocardial infarction/shock/arrest with cardiac catheter (498) - AMI without cardiac catheter without specified cardiac    conditions (757)
N = 13 002 - Arrhythmia without cardiac catheter (306) - Arrhythmia (584)
- Angina (except unstable)/chest pain without cardiac catheter (271) - Heart failure (559)
- Unstable angina/atherosclerotic heart disease without cardiac    catheter (205) - Unstable angina without cardiac catheter without specified    cardiac conditions (531)
- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (204)
  1. Legend: *Case Mix Groups (CMG) are aggregates of acute care inpatients with similar resource utilization; the Canadian Institute of Health Information developed CMG for use until 2007 when an enhanced version (CMG+) was introduced.
  2. FP = family physician, GIM = general internal medicine, IM = internal medicine, COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, AMI = acute myocardial infarction.
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