title: [Quality assurance, internal control and patients' security].
abstract: Quality assurance of health services includes elements of both medicine and law. The professional standard has to be defined by the medical establishment, while the legislation points out the duties that have to be discharged in order to obtain the goal of quality and a high standard of health care. A superior goal in all health care is to offer the patients adequate medical treatment. The patients' rights usually correspond to the duties of the providers of the care, and in order to satisfy the patients' requirements it is important to ensure that these providers fulfill their duties.
authors.affiliation: Juridisk seksjon, Helseavdelingen, Sosialdepartementet, Oslo.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ohnstad
mesh_terms: D009664:Norway; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011787:Quality of Health Care
vernacular_title: Kvalitetssikring, egenkontroll og tilsyn sett i lys av pasienters rettssikkerhet.