title: [Which medical quality concepts should be used in Norway? Some significant quality concepts with definitions, synonyms and analogues English terms].
abstract: The terminology for quality in medical practice is over-complex, confusing and often applied indiscriminately. Such terms are meant to contribute to the understanding of medical performance and to be used as tools for its improvement. In order to be able to understand each other and to perform quality assessment a set of comprehensible terms and concise definitions of those terms is needed. This article defines and discusses in alphabetical order some of the most important Norwegian medical quality terms, giving the corresponding expressions in English. The aim of the authors is to create a Norwegian reference for medical quality terminology, modified to conform with international literature. This is a continuous process, as are other areas of quality assessment, and for the present time we recommend that these definitions be used as standard terminology for Norwegian medical quality assessment.
authors.affiliation: Institutt for allmennmedisin og samfunnsmedisinske fag Universitetet i Oslo.
authors.forename: O J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Kvamme
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mjell
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hjortdahl
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D008485:Medical Audit; D009664:Norway; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D009626:Terminology as Topic