[From quality assurance to quality management. Applying data from quality assurance studies].

The realization of internal and external surgical quality assurance is natural for hospital physicians. External influences on the hospital and a changed understanding of organisation demand a development of classical quality assurance. The primary aim is a patient orientated quality assurance related to the medical benefits and the patient individual needs. The active creation and establishing of functional organisation process and interprofessional and interdisciplinary structures in hospital setting is a requirement of time.