  The management requires a hospital organization to provision their
costs/expenses with tools that approximate reality. The task of measuring
productivity can be complex and uncertain, several methods are tested and the
use of the DRG has been efficient, being used to assess the productivity
through clinical outcomes. Cross-sectional study evaluated 145.710
hospitalizations in the period 2012-2014, using the DRG methodology for
measuring productivity from the median length of hospitalization. When we group
all hospitalizations in clinical (37.6%) and surgical (62.4%), multiple
analyzes could be made according to this criterion. The DRG as a tool for
prediction of hospital days is an effective alternative, thereby contributing
to the control of productivity that directly influences the costs of hospital
expenses and product and service quality.
