[Do we need a special language in quality management?].
For matters outside our everyday experience we need a technical language. Its semantics and syntax must be carefully constituted from basic concepts and conclusions. A specialist language is easy to understand, precise and economical. The terminology of quality management has proved useful--irrespective of the product--on an international and intercultural stage. It is applicable in product- and service-industry as well as in health care. It does not relieve anybody from the pain of getting used to these programs. The specialist terminology paves the way for acting in a technical sense. In this the specialist use of language differs from a political and religious use of language.
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Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Stabsstelle Medizinische Qualitätssicherung, Hamburg.
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D007802:Language; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D009626:Terminology as Topic