Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen

The Journal for Evidence, training and quality in health care ( abbreviated ZEFQ ) is a German medical journal.

The ZEFQ in 1904 by Ernst von Bergmann, M. Kirchner and R. Kutner as a " Journal for Evidence ( ZaeF ) " founded in Gustav Fischer Verlag, making it one of the oldest German-language medical journals. They traded until the end of 2007 under the title Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare ( ZaeFQ )

Originally conceived as an interdisciplinary medical journal that ZaeF was one of the most widely read medical journals of the GDR - see list of newspapers and magazines in the GDR.

Since the mid- 1990s, the ZaeFQ focused on the topics of quality assurance in medicine and evidence-based medicine. From 2008, the readers of ZEFQ was extended to all health professionals. The journal is used as the common organ of publication of the following organizations:

• AkdÄ - Drug Commission of the German Medical Association,
• AQUA - Institute for Applied Quality Improvement and Research in Health Care,
• AWMF - Association of the Scientific Medical Societies,
• AQuMed - Agency for Quality in Medicine,
• BQS Institute for Quality & Patient Safety,
• DCZ - German Cochrane Centre,
• Browse - German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information,
• DNEbM - German Network for Evidence Based Medicine,
• G -BA - Federal Joint Committee,
• G- I-N - International Guidelines Network,
• GQMG - Society for Quality management in health care,
• IQWiG - Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care,
• MDS - Medical Services of the Central Federal Association of Health Insurance,
• SQMH - Swiss Association for Quality Management in Healthcare.

The ZEFQ is now published by the Elsevier group. Editors since 1995 Günter Ollenschläger.