“…Finally, 33 articles were identified for a full-text review and were included in the study. Among these 33 articles that were selected for final review, six studies were conducted in China (Jian et al, 2015;Jiao, 2018;Tabrizi, 2012;Wei & Feng, 2019;Yu et al, 2016;Yuan et al, 2019), six in Malaysia (Aljunid et al, 2010(Aljunid et al, , 2011a(Aljunid et al, , 2011bKamaliah et al, 2009;Mohamad, 2012;Turner-Stokes et al, 2012), four in Indonesia (Gultom & APT, 2012;Kasra et al, 2012;Rahimi et al, 2012;Saputra et al, 2012), two in South Korea (Jeon et al, 2019;Moon, 2015), two in Japan (Nakagawa et al, 2011;Okochi, 2012), two in Australia (Aisbett, 2010;Reid et al, 2011), two in Thailand (Pannarunothai, 2012;Pongpirul et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2012) and each one in New Zealand (Ng & Li, 2016), Philippines (Gool, 2012), Egypt (Yahia et al, 2016), Lebanon (Ammar et al, 2013), Iran (Ghaffari et al, 2010) and Hong Kong (Lam et al, 2011). Three articles were systematic reviews representing the data on DRG/case-mix studies in China, Singapore and Vietnam (Myint et al, 2019;Tabrizi, 2012;Turner-Stokes et al, 2012).…”