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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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 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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Outcomes and Survivorship After Arthroscopic Treatment of Glenohumeral Arthritis: A Systematic Review. Arthroscopy. 2020 07; 36(7):2010-2021.
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2019 AATS/ACC/ASE/SCAI/STS expert consensus systems of care?document: A proposal to optimize care for patients with valvular heart disease: A joint report of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 06; 157(6):e327-e354.
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Use of adenosine triphosphate to audit reprocessing of flexible endoscopes with an elevator mechanism. Am J Infect Control. 2018 11; 46(11):1272-1277.
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Society of Gynecologic Oncology Clinical Outcomes Registry: From small beginnings come great things. Gynecol Oncol. 2018 03; 148(3):439-444.
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Implementing clinical practice changes in critical care: lessons learned in a national collaborative of over 60 ICU teams. Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther. 2017; 49(5):437-440.
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Quality assurance and quantitative imaging biomarkers in low-dose CT lung cancer screening. Br J Radiol. 2018 Oct; 91(1090):20170401.
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database 2017 Update on Outcomes and Quality. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 May; 103(5):1378-1383.
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Nurses' Perceptions of Quality Care. J Nurs Care Qual. 2017 Apr/Jun; 32(2):180-185.
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Recall and Cancer Detection Rates for Screening Mammography: Finding the Sweet Spot. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Jan; 208(1):208-213.
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Automated survey of 8000 plan checks at eight facilities. Med Phys. 2016 Sep; 43(9):4966.