Chapter 4 Encoding truths? Diagnosis-Related Groups and the fragility of the marketisation discourse

This chapter will take as an example a particular change in healthcare financing at the meso-level: Diagnosis-Related Groups. DRGs marked a shift in the way hospitals were oriented and were the means to operationalise the market-logic in healthcare. The DRG system is a case classification system: ea...

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Main Author: Feitler, Therese (auth)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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