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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2008 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2010 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2011 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| 2012 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2014 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2019 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 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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Advancing Diagnostic Accuracy and Quality of Patient Care Through the Implementation of a Flow Cytometry Quality Assurance Program. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2025 Feb 01; 149(2):e26-e30.
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Which failures do patient-specific quality assurance systems need to catch? Med Phys. 2025 Jan; 52(1):88-98.
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On the acceptance, commissioning, and quality assurance of electron FLASH units. Med Phys. 2025 Feb; 52(2):1207-1223.
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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 Apr; 48(3):151902.
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Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Analysis of Alliance A021501: Preoperative mFOLFIRINOX or mFOLFIRINOX Plus Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Borderline Resectable Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 Sep 01; 120(1):111-119.
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Implementation and Efficacy of a Large-Scale Radiation Oncology Case-Based Peer-Review Quality Program across a Multinational Cancer Network. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2024 May-Jun; 14(3):e173-e179.