 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 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 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 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2008 | 12 | 4 | 16 | | 2009 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2010 | 10 | 5 | 15 | | 2011 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2012 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2015 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2016 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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Graham KL, Auerbach AD, Schnipper JL, Flanders SA, Kim CS, Robinson EJ, Ruhnke GW, Thomas LR, Kripalani S, Vasilevskis EE, Fletcher GS, Sehgal NJ, Lindenauer PK, Williams MV, Metlay JP, Davis RB, Yang J, Marcantonio ER, Herzig SJ. Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients. Ann Intern Med. 2018 06 05; 168(11):766-774.
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Court L, Wang H, Aten D, Brown D, MacGregor H, du Toit M, Chi M, Gao S, Yock A, Aristophanous M, Balter P. Illustrated instructions for mechanical quality assurance of a medical linear accelerator. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018 May; 19(3):355-359.
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Chung JH, Haas K, Liu L, Zhu W, Geyer M, Chang PJ, Katzman GL. The Effect of a Technologist-Centered Electronic Review and Feedback System on Image Quality. J Am Coll Radiol. 2018 Oct; 15(10):1437-1442.
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Benzon HA, Hajduk J, De Oliveira G, Suresh S, Nizamuddin SL, McCarthy R, Jagannathan N. Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellows' Perception of Quality of Attending Supervision and Medical Errors. Anesth Analg. 2018 02; 126(2):639-643.
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Hirsch E. The most important quality of a physician. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 04; 218(4):459.
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