title: [Quality and cost reduction: corresponding goals of strategic reorientation of hospitals].
abstract: Industrial quality management has taught that costs are not induced by high quality but by non-quality. The medical literature suggests that this might also hold true in medicine and furthermore reveals factors directed concurrently at lowering costs and at increasing quality: These include personal and institutional case load, implementation of guide lines supported by information technology as well as innovative organizational structures and principles of reimbursement.
authors.affiliation: Allgemeinchirurgische Klinik, Department Chirurgie, Basel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heberer
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*
vernacular_title: Qualität und Kostenreduktion: Ubereinstimmende Ziele einer strategischen Neuorientierung von Krankenhäusern.