In the Professionals section of the site is a listing of
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes that the ATA has recommended to Medicare for laboratory testing for thyroid dysfunction, as well as National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines developed to help clinicians better diagnose these problems.
For example, in studying the history of the
International Classification of Diseases (Star & Bowker, 1994; Bowker & Star, in press), we noted that the designers of this global classification system must constantly make practical tradeoffs between the two challenges.
