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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality Assurance, Health Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
1999 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
2000 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2002 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2003 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
2004 | 11 | 4 | 15 |
2005 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
2006 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
2007 | 15 | 5 | 20 |
2008 | 17 | 3 | 20 |
2009 | 17 | 11 | 28 |
2010 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
2011 | 17 | 5 | 22 |
2012 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
2013 | 20 | 5 | 25 |
2014 | 17 | 10 | 27 |
2015 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
2016 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
2017 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
2018 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
2019 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
2020 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
2021 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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TEAM(ing): together each achiev(ing) more! Fertil Steril. 2022 01; 117(1):8-9.
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Health Economic Impact of a Multicenter Quality-of-Care Initiative for Reducing Unplanned Healthcare Utilization Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 2021 12 01; 116(12):2459-2464.
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The radiotherapy quality assurance gap among phase III cancer clinical trials. Radiother Oncol. 2022 01; 166:51-57.
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The Value of On-Site Proton Audits. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 03 15; 112(4):1004-1011.
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Comparative Effectiveness of Risk-adjusted Cumulative Sum and Periodic Evaluation for Monitoring Hospital Perioperative Mortality. Med Care. 2021 07 01; 59(7):639-645.
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Out-of-Hospital COVID-19 Deaths: Consequences for Quality of Medical Care and Accuracy of Cause of Death Coding. Am J Public Health. 2021 07; 111(S2):S101-S106.
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Quality assurance in radiation oncology. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 05; 68 Suppl 2:e28609.
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Machine QA for the Elekta Unity system: A Report from the Elekta MR-linac consortium. Med Phys. 2021 May; 48(5):e67-e85.
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Relationship Between Perioperative Outcomes Used for Profiling Hospital Noncardiac Surgical Quality. J Surg Res. 2021 08; 264:58-67.
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Devices for dosimetric measurements and quality assurance of the Xstrahl 300 orthovoltage unit. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Apr; 22(4):151-157.