Quality assurance in health care : the official journal of the International Society for Quality Assurance in Health Care / ISQA
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Qual Assur Health Care · Sep 1992
A pilot project on quality assurance in nursing care in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic of Germany.
As a direct result of the law passed in Germany requiring the practice of quality assurance in health care which has been in effect since 1 January 1989, the Institute for Health Systems Research in Kiel piloted a project on quality assurance in medicine in 12 hospitals in Schleswig-Holstein from September 1989 to February 1991. Two procedures for measuring the quality of nursing care were also developed in two of these hospitals. ⋯ An extension of the medical side of the project to cover all 80 hospitals in Schleswig-Holstein was planned to begin on 1 January 1992. As far as the nursing side is concerned, approximately 10 procedures will be developed and tested in eight hospitals.