The legislation and the relevant bodies have chosen a stepwise approach for introducing the external comparative quality management.
BQS tasks focus on the external comparative quality management which is obligatory for hospitals accredited under GKV.
The external comparative quality management for hospitals is a highly discussed subject in the German health community.
The most ambitious project at present is the development of a comprehensive comparative quality management system for hospitals at national level, including public reporting.
In general the development of comparative quality management has been considered being on a good way, however the instruments needed to be improved and, especially the bureaucracy of data generation and communication for the hospitals had to be reduced significantly in order to assure reliable data gathering [ 18].
For the obligatory external comparative quality management in hospitals the G-BA has formed a sub – committee, which advises the G-BA and cooperates with the technical working groups at federal level as well as with the steering committees at state level.
Instead, it provides a good criterion for comparing different management regimes on a given tract of land, or comparative potential returns among species and countries with current forest plantation management, productivities, costs, and returns.
Other principal fields in economics include economic history, health economics, cultural economics, economics of education, demographic economics, the study of nonprofit organizations, economic regulation, business management, comparative economic systems, environmental economics, urban and regional economics, and spatial economics.
A comparative study of management of mid-shaft clavicle fractures (Robinson type 2b) was carried out at a tertiary care teaching hospital between Jun 2011 and Jun 2013.
It calls for more research on input and output market efficiency, private sector development, the effects of reform on farmers, sequencing issues, comparative advantage, water management, land tenure and farm size.
