[The normative legal regulation of expertise of medical care quality in the Russian Federation].

Abstract

In modern conditions, the support of quality of medical care is one of key issues in health care management. Therefore, quality control issues are most important ones. The effective tool for monitoring quality of medical care is the medical care quality expertise. Hence, the legal regulation of this type of activity acquires special relevance. The article considers absence of uniform approaches to medical care quality expertise that does not allow to apply comparative analysis to processes of medical care support in medical organizations of various affiliations and to monitor both medical care quality and prevalence of medical errors to implement strategy of ensuring medical care quality. The identified legal aspects determine the need for further improvement of normative legal regulation of medical care quality expertise, specifying its role in the system of quality control and safety of medical care, unification of corresponding approaches, regardless of type of financing of medical care, departmental or territorial affiliation.