Objective This paper reviews experience, in both research and application, with measures of
appropriateness applied to the utilization of hospital inpatient services in the UK …

Assessing the appropriateness of hospital utilization in the United Kingdom may yield
practical solutions to problems faced by both purchasers and providers of health care in the …

Objective. To develop and test a utilization review screening tool for use in European
hospitals. Setting. In 1993 a group of researchers financed by a European Union grant …

The aim of routine utilisation review is to identify patients who are inappropriately placed in
an acute unit and who could be alternatively treated in a lower technology facility. Utilisation …

The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) is a criterion audit tool used extensively in
the USA to assess the appropriateness of admission to hospitals. This study evaluated the …

Objective. To help to co-ordinate and harmonize research on utilization review in Europe,
the US Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) was adapted for use in the European …

This paper presents the background, objectives and preliminary results of a coordinated
European Project involving researchers in seven countries aimed at harmonizing methods …

This paper is an overview of hospital utilization review in Spain. Most of the hospital
utilization studies have used the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol as the review …

This paper describes the work that has been under way in the Portuguese government
hospital sector, with respect to the use of an adapted version of the Appropriateness …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of utilization review (UR) methods that
have been used in the United States and the direction UR is likely to take in the future. In …