title: [From quality assurance to quality management. Applying data from quality assurance studies].
abstract: The realization of internal and external surgical quality assurance is natural for hospital physicians. External influences on the hospital and a changed understanding of organisation demand a development of classical quality assurance. The primary aim is a patient orientated quality assurance related to the medical benefits and the patient individual needs. The active creation and establishing of functional organisation process and interprofessional and interdisciplinary structures in hospital setting is a requirement of time.
authors.affiliation: Department für Operative Medizin, Abteilung Unfallchirurgie, Städtischen Krankenhauses Berlin-Friedrichshain.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zenker
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration