"Quality Control" 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.
A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in a product or process by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D011786
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J01.897.608
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| Concept/Terms |
Quality Control- Quality Control
- Control, Quality
- Controls, Quality
- Quality Controls
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Control" by people in Profiles.
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A Clinically Interpretable Artificial Intelligence System for Real-Time Quality Control of Transthoracic Echocardiography: Development, Validation, and Deployment. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2026 Sep; 39(9):875-886.
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A review of the State-of-the-Art: progress in ultrasonic and acoustic techniques for quality assessment in the development and manufacturing of oral solid dosage forms - Part II: Applications and emerging directions. Int J Pharm. 2026 Jun 05; 698:126925.
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Measuring deiodinase activity: a need for standardization? Eur Thyroid J. 2026 02 01; 15(2).
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Assessing imaging performance of ultrasound systems using a random hypoechoic sphere phantom with freehand scanning. Med Phys. 2026 Jan; 53(1):e70278.
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Data analytics for error detection in clinical laboratories. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci. 2026 May; 63(3):220-236.
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Multi-Institutional Survey of 4-Year Ultrasound Quality Control Findings. J Ultrasound Med. 2025 Nov; 44(11):2103-2111.
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Tutorial: guidelines for quality filtering of whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing data for population-scale association analyses. Nat Protoc. 2025 09; 20(9):2372-2382.
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Advancing the Harmonization of Biopredictive Methodologies through the Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) Consortium: Biopredictive Dissolution of Dipyridamole Tablets. Mol Pharm. 2024 10 07; 21(10):5315-5325.
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AAPM task group report 305: Guidance for standardization of vendor-neutral reject analysis in radiography. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023 May; 24(5):e13938.
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Quality assurance and quality control in surgical oncology. J Surg Oncol. 2022 Dec; 126(8):1560-1572.