title: [Quality assurance in child and adolescent health care].
abstract: Quality assurance will be an important challenge not only in the private medical sector, but also in Public Health Services of Germany. In this contribution the basic principles of quality control are explained in a concise form: definition of quality, standard levels in quality assurance and control, evaluation and realisation. As far as possible some practical examples derived from the school and youth health services are explained. They can be modified to apply to other departments of Public Health Services.
authors.affiliation: Akademie für öffentliches Gesundheitswesen in Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schirm
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*
vernacular_title: Qualitätssicherung im Jugendgesundheitsdienst.