title: [The role of benchmarking seen from the perspective of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA)].
abstract: The Federal Joint Committee as the guardian of quality assurance has a vested interest in benchmarking in health care. This is reflected in the fact that essential features of benchmarking can be found in the cross-institutional quality assurance procedure, which is the main quality assurance measure of the G-BA. However, a morphological analysis of the various quality assurance methods reveals differences in these characteristics. To a large extent this refers to the particular mix of different sub-goals that are pursued with the respective quality assurance measure. Benchmarking is correlated more with the sub-goal of promoting quality rather than with quality control. To other sub-goals pursued with quality assurance, there is rather an indifferent relationship. Whether and to what extent benchmarking will shape these measures is therefore a question of how quality assurance will be put into practice.
authors.affiliation: Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss, Berlin. steffen.koczott@g-ba.de
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siebig
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards