title: [Quality assurance, certification and the new Institute for Quality in Medicine].
abstract: The political partners of the new coalition federal government in Germany have agreed on the founding of a new Institute for Quality in Medicine based on a law regulating more transparency in the quality assessment of hospitals. How can such an institute find its place in the already existing diverse landscape of quality control and quality management in the German health care system?
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Urologie, Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Schillingallee 35, 18057, Rostock, Deutschland, oliver.hakenberg@med.uni-rostock.de.
authors.forename: O W
authors.initials: OW
authors.lastname: Hakenberg
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schroeder
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002568:Certification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005858:Germany; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014572:Urology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*