Quality Assurance, Health Care
"Quality Assurance, Health Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.
Descriptor ID |
D011785
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MeSH Number(s) |
N04.761.700 N05.700
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Concept/Terms |
Quality Assurance, Health Care- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Healthcare Quality Assurance
- Assurance, Healthcare Quality
- Assurances, Healthcare Quality
- Healthcare Quality Assurances
- Quality Assurances, Healthcare
- Quality Assurance, Healthcare
- Health Care Quality Assurance
Healthcare Quality Assessment- Healthcare Quality Assessment
- Assessment, Healthcare Quality
- Assessments, Healthcare Quality
- Healthcare Quality Assessments
- Quality Assessments, Healthcare
- Quality Assessment, Healthcare
- Quality Assessment, Health Care
- Health Care Quality Assessment
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1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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Perioperative factors associated with Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems responses of total hip arthroplasty patients. J Clin Anesth. 2016 Nov; 34:232-8.
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Utility of Arden Syntax for Representation of Fuzzy Logic in Clinical Quality Measures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015; 216:1096.
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Iterating toward convergence: guideline development and the quality of clinical care. Ophthalmology. 2011 Jun; 118(6):1015-6.
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Toward robust information: data quality and inter-rater reliability in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Am Coll Surg. 2010 Jan; 210(1):6-16.
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Suitability of the Arden Syntax for representation of quality indicators. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 06; 991.
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Standards in clinical decision support: activities in health level seven. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 06; 1244-5.
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The effectiveness of nurse- and pharmacist-directed care in diabetes disease management: a narrative review. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2007 Nov; 3(4):280-6.
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Safe handling and administration of blood components: review of practical concepts. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2007 May; 131(5):690-4.
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Development and testing of interview questions to determine last menstrual period in Mexican immigrant populations. J Immigr Health. 2004 Jul; 6(3):127-36.
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The case for "outsourcing" diabetes care. Diabetes Care. 2003 May; 26(5):1608-12.