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 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 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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Data warehouse strategies and the modern anatomic pathology laboratory: Quality management, patient safety, and pathology productivity issues and opportunities. Semin Diagn Pathol. 2019 Sep; 36(5):294-302.
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Predictors of Utilization and Quality Assessment in Robotic Rectal Cancer Resection: A Review of the National Cancer Database. Am Surg. 2017 Aug 01; 83(8):918-924.
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Resuscitation outcomes consortium (ROC) studies dig deep into the science of CPR. JEMS. 2017 01; 42(1):29-32.
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Prospective Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Real-Time Peer Review Quality Assurance Rounds Incorporating Direct Physical Examination for Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017 07 01; 98(3):532-540.
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Training retinal imagers for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening. J AAPOS. 2016 06; 20(3):214-9.
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Challenges of minimally invasive pancreas surgery growth with such a high learning curve. JAMA Surg. 2015 May; 150(5):423.
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A comparison of results with eversion versus conventional carotid endarterectomy from the Vascular Quality Initiative and the Mid-America Vascular Study Group. J Vasc Surg. 2015 May; 61(5):1216-22.
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Fifteen years' experience of a College of American Pathologists program for continuous monitoring and improvement. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Sep; 138(9):1150-5.
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Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014 Jun; 35(6):605-27.
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Interplay effect of angular dependence and calibration field size of MapCHECK 2 on RapidArc quality assurance. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2014 May 08; 15(3):4638.