[Assessment of quality of medical activities (author's transl)]

The efforts to measure the quality of medical activities have been described in the literature a great many times. In this respect, high blood pressure, urinary tract infections and cholecystectomy are great health problems which are most frequently the objects of the investigations. This is also to be seen in the choice of the qualitative measurements used. Whereas adaptable procedures to measure the quality of processes seem to be available, the search for suitable process-specific result measures is far from being concluded. But approximations can be made use of. Finally the quality of medical activities need not be measured exactly in order to be able to assure quality.