[Quality reliability in the German Federal Republic. A model plan for ensuring quality and efficiency of hospital care (author's transl)].

In order to place the efforts to ensure quality in medical care in hospitals which have been begun in the surgical sphere on a broader and more permanent basis, these efforts by the hospital doctors should be supported by suitable measures. For this purpose a Model Organization for Ensuring Quality and Efficiency in Hospital Care in West Germany has been developed by an interdisciplinary project group under the leadership of professor Eichhorn at the German Hospital Institute. At the beginning of the project, considerations of the aims, the demands of method and the conditions for converting them to practice were put forward.