title: [Quality control as the principle of quality assurance in surgical treatment, exemplified by biliary surgery].
abstract: Reference is made in this paper to a possibility of quality checking in surgery. Methods and usefulness of quality assurance are expounded on the basis of results obtained from a one-year study into three surgical centres.
authors.affiliation: Arbeitsgruppe Leistungserfassung und Qualitätssicherung in der Chirurgie, Gesellschaft für Chirurgie der DDR.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Herwig
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gastinger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000601:surgery*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D011786:Quality Control; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Qualitätskontrolle als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung chirurgischer Tätigkeit, dargestellt am Beispiel der Gallenwegschirurgie.