title: [The possible drawbacks of applying the DRG classification].
abstract: The objective of this article is to present the difficulties linked to the measure and use of the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) as part of a hospital's production and management accounting evaluation system. We will present here all the criticisms brought forth in management literature against DRG classifications. The article isn't intended to argue against and to push people to reconsider the tool but rather to attract the attention of politicians and hospital managers to all the possible difficulties and outcomes that could be generated by the DRG, this in terms of either the AP-DRG or the German-DRG, the latter being the classification that has been adopted in Switzerland as the basis for the construction of the future Swiss-DRG.
authors.affiliation: HEC, Université de Genève 16, chemin de laVoie Creuse, 1202 Genève. zofia.huber@hec.unige.ch
authors.forename: Zofia Swinarski
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006739:Hospital Administration; D013557:Switzerland