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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| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2006 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2009 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2010 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2011 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
| 2012 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 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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A Norwegian adaptation of the quality in psychiatric care - inpatient staff (QPC-IPS): psychometric evaluation and staff assessment of quality of care. Nord J Psychiatry. 2025 Feb; 79(2):146-155.
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External quality assessment performance in ten countries: an IFCC global laboratory quality project. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2024 Nov 26; 62(12):2435-2443.
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Centralized Quality Assurance of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Study Number 2005: A Phase 3 Randomized Trial of Lung Cancer Surgery or Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Operable Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (VALOR). Pract Radiat Oncol. 2025 Jan-Feb; 15(1):e29-e39.
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Deep learning for contour quality assurance for RTOG 0933: In-silico evaluation. Radiother Oncol. 2024 Dec; 201:110519.
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Building a NICU quality & safety infrastructure. Semin Perinatol. 2024 04; 48(3):151902.
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External quality assessment practices in medical laboratories: an IFCC global survey of member societies. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2023 07 26; 61(8):1404-1410.
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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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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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Relationship Between Perioperative Outcomes Used for Profiling Hospital Noncardiac Surgical Quality. J Surg Res. 2021 08; 264:58-67.
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Implementing Health Care Quality Measures in Electronic Health Records: A Conceptual Model. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 04; 69(4):1079-1085.