Developing cross-sectoral quality assurance for cataract surgery in the statutory quality assurance program of the German health care system: Experiences and lessons learned

• Published in: Health policy (Amsterdam) Vol. 119; no. 8; pp. 1017 - 1022
• Main Authors: Bramesfeld, Anke, Pauletzki, Jürgen, Behrenz, Lars, Szecsenyi, Joachim, Willms, Gerald, Broge, Björn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.08.2015
• Subjects: Ambulatory Care - organization & administration; Ambulatory Care - standards; Cataract Extraction - standards; Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration; Delivery of Health Care - standards; Documentation; Germany; Health administration; Health insurance data; Health policy; Health system; Hospitals; Humans; Internal Medicine; Medical service; Patients; Peer review; Program Development; Quality assessment; Quality Assurance, Health Care - organization & administration; Quality improvement; Quality in health care; Surgery; Surveys; Health system; Quality improvement; Health policy; Quality assessment; Health insurance data; Quality in health care
• ISSN: 0168-8510; 1872-6054
• DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.03.008

Highlights • Cross-sectoral quality assurance (QA) is being developed for the national QA-scheme in Germany. • It aims at measuring quality across health care interfaces. • Technical and problems of acceptance challenge the implementation of cross-sectoral QA. • To overcome them, new data-sources for QA are proposed: routine data, patient surveys, peer reviews using indicators.