Techniques for determining case mix and their application to Allergology. 2

: In this second part, we review the Generic Algorithms, the RUGs and the Ambulatory Visits Groups, remarking their possible application in our specialty. In an Allergology Service, most resources are spent on outpatients attendance. This fact allows us to propose that a production unit of that Service (GFH) could develop its activities, in its health area, ambulatorily. Its objectives and responsibilities, together with its human and material resources, could be clearly defined. An allergy outpatients clinic basic technological requirements are scarce, its costs being mainly determined by those of the staff. This makes possible the application of algorithms, to obtain the AVGs in Allergology, and to calculate the "cost by process", with the use of an indirect cost imputation system. The systematic use of evaluation technics in our specialty case-mix is a necessity in the present, because it permits: 1) a correct planning, fixing and ordering the objectives; 2) a better user of resources; 3) an adequate request of budgets, according to production; 4) obtaining a clinical and epidemiological data base; 5) billing the services; 6) information to the customer (patient) about the expenses his attention has generated.