The Avedis Donabedian University Institute for Quality Assurance and Clinical Safety, which was created in 2006, is owned by the Avedis Donabedian Foundation and is attached to the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) as a center with its own legal personality.
The Avedis Donabedian-UAB University Institute has as a mission to act as a meeting point between the academic and academic world, citizens, professionals and centers and the Administration to make them interact and be a nexus of collaboration and rapprochement between them for the improvement of Quality in health and social care.