John D. Thompson

John Devereaux Thompson (6 August 1917 to 13 August 1992) was a nurse and professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He held the qualifications of registered nurse and master of science. Thompson is credited as a co-inventor of the diagnosis-related groups, known as DRGs, a classification that provided the basis for changing the system of hospital payment. His name is remembered at Yale, where the School of Public Health awards an annual health management and policy research grant to top graduate students in public health under the name of John D. Thompson, in recognition of his contribution to the field.