[The quality of diagnosis and procedure coding in Orthopaedic surgery Northern Jutland].

Introduction: When the aim is for high quality, efficiency and a balanced allocation of resources in health services, there is a constant demand for optimisation of the quality of registration regarding diagnosis, treatment and DRG-values (DRG = Diagnosis Related Groups). Since the mid-nineties the DRG-system has been used to shed light on productivity in Danish hospitals. This study investigates the quality of registrations after the introduction of an organization for registrations in the county of Northern Jutland.