MARQuIS

Welcome to the home page of the MARQuIS project. MARQuIS was funded as part of the component on “Scientific Support to Policies” of the European Union 6th Framework Research Programme, was launched on January 2005 by six European Research centres, the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) and the European Society for Quality in Healthcare led by the Avedis Donabedian Foundation in Spain. It also includes accreditation institutions and quality centres acting as country coordinators in 7 EU countries. The project lasted till the end of 2007.

FINAL PROJECT REPORT
You can access the final report by clicking on the "Public area", left and right on this page. There you can access the "Files" folder where you can find the pdf version of the final report of the project with its recommendations. By clicking on the "Link area" you can find all project partners starting with the organisation that acted as the project lead, the Fundacion Avedis Donabedian in Barcelona.

ARTICLES
A number of articles about the project findings were published in a special supplement of the February 2009 issue of "Quality and Safety in Healthcare" which you can access by using this link:
http://qshc.bmj.com/cgi/search?fulltext=marquis&sortspec=relevance&x=8&y=11

In the European Union, borders are increasingly disappearing. Citizens and other actors in the economic and social sectors are seeking more cross-border coope-
ration. In this context, governments and citizens have, however, a limited basis to compare health care delivery and to make choices about where to go for health care. Simultaneously a multitude of (national) quality strategies is applied in European health care systems to assess, assure and improve the quality of care.
The Marquis project (“Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement Strategies”) is designed to help assessing the value of different quality strategies and to provide needed information for countries when contracting care for patients moving across borders and for individual hospitals when reviewing the design of their quality strategies. The results also provide evidence-based advice for further development of formal quality procedures at EU level for health care institutions or for developing existing approaches.