title: [The DRG system's interaction with medical practice].
abstract: Financing of health services is partly based on coding of diagnoses by diagnose-related groups (DRG). Arriving at a medical diagnosis is not a straight-forward procedure, and it is likely that the DRG-system itself affects the medical diagnosis. The DRG system undermines the theoretical challenge of arriving at a medical diagnosis and is perceived more as a tool for supervising medical doctors.
authors.affiliation: Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, 7491 Trondheim. gunhilto@stud.ntnu.no
authors.forename: Gunhild
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tøndel
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans