Dental quality center
Center for Dental Quality (ZZQ) |
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legal form | GbR |
founding | January 1, 2000 |
founder | Federal Dental Association , National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists |
Seat | Chausseestr. 13, 10115 Berlin |
main emphasis | Promotion of dental health care through development and use of evidence-based guidelines, knowledge transfer in health care |
Action space | Germany |
people | Regine Chenot, head of the ZZQ, Nele Güntheroth, speaker |
Website | www.zzq-berlin.de |
The Dental Quality Center (ZZQ) is an institution jointly sponsored by the German Dental Association and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists . It is an independent staff unit in the Institute of German Dentists (IDZ). The ZZQ has been based in Berlin since 2012 . The director of the ZZQ is Regine Chenot. Previously it was called Dental Central Quality Assurance and was based in Cologne .
tasks
For German dentists, the ZZQ deals with questions relating to dental quality promotion, external quality assurance and internal quality management, in particular with questions relating to the quality of structures, processes and results of dental activities. This includes the subjects of patient orientation, quality management systems, guidelines and quality indicators. Another focus is the observation of knowledge development (national and international) in the area of quality promotion (knowledge management).
Quality promotion
- Quality management systems for the dental practice
- Agenda for quality promotion
- Research projects to promote quality
- Advising the supporting organizations on issues of quality promotion
Guidelines: long version, dentist version, patient version
- Guideline for sealing fissures
- Guideline for the early detection of oral cancer
- Guideline root tip resection (WSR)
- Guideline on fluoridation measures for caries prophylaxis
- Guideline Surgical removal of wisdom teeth
- Guideline for guidelines
- Flow chart for the creation and coordination of guidelines, updated scheme
- Evaluation of dental guidelines by quality circles (ELL-QZ)
Memberships
- German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine ,
- German Network of Evidence-Based Medicine ,
- Guidelines International Network (GIN).