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promises quality management in medical practices more transparent and comprehensive care for patients



Berlin - Each Party must practice in Germany until the end of 2009 and four introduced years after opening a quality management system. The goal is to make medical quality standards review. How is the quality management can be implemented in internal medicine practices, the advantages and disadvantages it for patients and doctors to experts discuss in the framework of the 1st Internal German parliament in Berlin. Organizers of the conference are the Association of German Internists (BDI) and the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM).

, with the assistance of a quality management practices document organization, operations and results are reviewed regularly. Quality Management describes a wide field: A goal is that information to the patient within the practice where gaps further. Another is to advise and train the patients about their disease to regular maintenance of medical equipment.

doth the quality of medical care, it uses the patient: "Such a quality increase in disease, the probability that developing therapeutic measures a favorable outcome," said Dr. Berndt Birkner, Munich. In cooperation with the BDI and the physicians' Federation of Internal quality management for internal medicine has developed. would be for him it is the ideal case, when each patient was up to his doctor with a written report from the field. "The patient can then track what was done and how it goes with him. He has a care concept. "The expert believes that the appreciation of doctors and their staff will increase if the quality of performance is visible.

doctors to give more security quality management in creating the diagnosis and treatment. Because what it set out guidelines to help physicians make their decisions about diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the sequences are in an economic practice and better understood. It is true that quality management with documentation effort, as it lived on data and facts, Birkner said before the internist day, "But only if I record something, it is for other identifiable and traceable," the analyst said.



Each practitioner is free to develop its own quality management system or a commercially available product to be acquired domain. What is important is that medical practices consider statutory framework. Especially for the Internal Medicine of the BDI has developed in cooperation with the National Association of the physicians 'quality management system "QM-inside'. It offers an Internal assistance to establish their specific requirements in accordance with a quality management on their own can.



Further questions regarding "Quality management in internal medicine" experts discuss the 1st German Internistentag the BDI and DGIM same in a workshop.