 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.
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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, Health Care
- Health Care Quality Assessment
- Quality Assessment, Healthcare
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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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| 1986 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1994 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2003 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2004 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2005 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2008 | 14 | 4 | 18 | | 2009 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2010 | 10 | 5 | 15 | | 2011 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2012 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2015 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2017 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2018 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2019 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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Chen M, Yepes P, Hojo Y, Poenisch F, Li Y, Chen J, Xu C, He X, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Sahoo N, Li H, Zhu XR, Zhang X. Transitioning from measurement-based to combined patient-specific quality assurance for intensity-modulated proton therapy. Br J Radiol. 2020 Mar; 93(1107):20190669.
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Wu RY, Liu AY, Williamson TD, Yang J, Wisdom PG, Zhu XR, Frank SJ, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Gao S. Quantifying the accuracy of deformable image registration for cone-beam computed tomography with a physical phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2019 Oct; 20(10):92-100.
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Subbe CP, Bannard-Smith J, Bunch J, Champunot R, DeVita MA, Durham L, Edelson DP, Gonzalez I, Hancock C, Haniffa R, Hartin J, Haskell H, Hogan H, Jones DA, Kalkman CJ, Lighthall GK, Malycha J, Ni MZ, Phillips AV, Rubulotta F, So RK, Welch J. Quality metrics for the evaluation of Rapid Response Systems: Proceedings from the third international consensus conference on Rapid Response Systems. Resuscitation. 2019 08; 141:1-12.
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Pozdnyakova A, Andersen M, Cruz S, Wilson H, Pakvasa M, Oyler J. Assessing Quality of Diabetes Care and Medical Student Volunteer Knowledge of Diabetes Care at the University of Chicago Community Health Clinic. Am J Med Qual. 2019 Nov/Dec; 34(6):621.
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El Naqa I, Irrer J, Ritter TA, DeMarco J, Al-Hallaq H, Booth J, Kim G, Alkhatib A, Popple R, Perez M, Farrey K, Moran JM. Machine learning for automated quality assurance in radiotherapy: A proof of principle using EPID data description. Med Phys. 2019 Apr; 46(4):1914-1921.
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Alban RF, Anania EC, Cohen TN, Fabri PJ, Gewertz BL, Jain M, Jopling JK, Maggio PM, Sanchez JA, Sax HC. Performance improvement in surgery. Curr Probl Surg. 2019 Jun; 56(6):211-246.
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Newitt DC, Zhang Z, Gibbs JE, Partridge SC, Chenevert TL, Rosen MA, Bolan PJ, Marques HS, Aliu S, Li W, Cimino L, Joe BN, Umphrey H, Ojeda-Fournier H, Dogan B, Oh K, Abe H, Drukteinis J, Esserman LJ, Hylton NM. Test-retest repeatability and reproducibility of ADC measures by breast DWI: Results from the ACRIN 6698 trial. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 06; 49(6):1617-1628.
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Miller ME, Patel A, Schindler N, Hirsch K, Ming M, Weber S, Turner P, Howell MD, Arora VM, Oyler JL. Bridging the Gap: Interdepartmental Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Curriculum Created by Hospital Leaders, Faculty, and Trainees. J Grad Med Educ. 2018 Oct; 10(5):566-572.
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Chung JH, Landeras L, Haas K, Liu P, Liu L, MacMahon H. The Value of a Disease-Specific Template and an IT-Based Quality Tracking System in Pulmonary Embolism CT Angiography. J Am Coll Radiol. 2018 Jul; 15(7):988-992.
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Niles DE, Duval-Arnould J, Skellett S, Knight L, Su F, Raymond TT, Sweberg T, Sen AI, Atkins DL, Friess SH, de Caen AR, Kurosawa H, Sutton RM, Wolfe H, Berg RA, Silver A, Hunt EA, Nadkarni VM. Characterization of Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality Metrics Across an International Resuscitation Collaborative. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 05; 19(5):421-432.
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