title: [Quality management in intensive care medicine. Indispensable for daily routine].
abstract: In areas requiring maximum safety like intensive care units or operating room departments, modern quality management and risk management are essential. Treatment of critically ill patients is associated with high risk and, therefore, demands risk management and quality management. External quality assessment in intensive care medicine has been developed based on a core data set and quality indicators. A peer review procedure has been established. In addition, regional networks of intensive care physicians result in improved local networking. In intensive care medicine, this innovative modular system of quality management and risk management is pursued more consequently than in any other specialty.
authors.affiliation: Kliniken des Landkreises Göppingen gGmbH, Eichertstr. 3, 73035, Göppingen, Germany. joerg.martin@email.de
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Braun
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009313:National Health Programs; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010380:Peer Review; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*