title: [Quality assurance. A review with special reference to surgical gynecology].
abstract: The aim of quality assurance should be to ameliorate the medical treatment. Also it is automatically part of the medical profession. This paper defines the terms quality assurance and quality. Concepts existing in the USA and in Germany are partly just formed in Switzerland or work at the ASF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schweizerischer Frauenkliniken) successfully since 10 years. The quality assurance in hospitals and in the health system should be reached throughout Switzerland.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Basel, Schweiz.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Haberthür
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000601:surgery*; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000601:surgery*; D005858:Germany; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D013557:Switzerland; D014481:United States