John Devereaux Thompson, R.N., M.S. (6 August 1917 – 13 August 1992) was a nurse and professor at the

Yale School of Public Health The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States. It is consistently rated among the best schools of public health in the cou ...

who co-invented the

diagnosis-related group Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups, with the last group (coded as 470 through v24, 999 thereafter) being "Ungroupable". This system of classification was developed as a collaborat ...

s (DRGs) that provided a basis for changing the system for hospital payment. The Yale School of Public Health currently awards an annual health management and policy research grant to top Graduate students in Public Health under the name, and recognition of, John D. Thompson.

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John Devereaux Thompson Papers (MS 1498).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, John D. 1917 births 1992 deaths American nurses Yale School of Medicine alumni Male nurses Nursing educators Yale University faculty Nursing researchers