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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N04.761.700 N05.700
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Quality Assurance, Health Care".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Quality Assurance, Health Care [N04.761.700]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality Assurance, Health Care [N05.700]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Quality Assurance, Health Care".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Quality Assurance, Health Care".

Quality Assurance, Health Care
Alert Fatigue, Health Personnel
Benchmarking
Clinical Audit
Guidelines as Topic
Laboratory Proficiency Testing
Near Miss, Healthcare
Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
Time Out, Healthcare
Total Quality Management

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Bar chart showing 51 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2007 and 2008

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	1	3	4
2005	1	0	1
2007	3	3	6
2008	5	1	6
2009	2	1	3
2010	1	2	3
2011	1	0	1
2012	2	1	3
2013	1	0	1
2014	5	0	5
2015	2	2	4
2016	2	1	3
2017	3	0	3
2019	0	1	1
2021	1	0	1
2025	2	0	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.

Jenders RA. Evaluation of Arden Syntax v3.0 to Represent Population-Level Clinical Decision Support Knowledge in Electronic Clinical Quality Measures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 Aug 07; 329:1564-1565.

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Matsubayashi N, Hu N, Takata T, Sasaki A, Kumada H, Nakamura S, Masuda A, Tanaka H. Characterization of acrylic phantom for use in quality assurance of BNCT beam output procedure. J Radiat Res. 2025 Jan 22; 66(1):10-15.

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Panagiotou OA, Voorhies KR, Keohane LM, Kim D, Adhikari D, Kumar A, Rivera-Hernandez M, Rahman M, Gozalo P, Gutman R, Mor V, Trivedi AN. Association of Inclusion of Medicare Advantage Patients in Hospitals' Risk-Standardized Readmission Rates, Performance, and Penalty Status. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 02 01; 4(2):e2037320.

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Bhushan M, Yadav G, Tripathi D, Kumar L, Kishore V, Dewan A, Kumar G, Wahi IK, Gairola M. Dosimetric Analysis of Unflattened (FFFB) and Flattened (FB) Photon Beam Energy for Gastric Cancers Using IMRT and VMAT-a Comparative Study. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2019 Sep; 50(3):408-419.

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D'Alton ME, Friedman AM, Bernstein PS, Brown HL, Callaghan WM, Clark SL, Grobman WA, Kilpatrick SJ, O'Keeffe DF, Montgomery DM, Srinivas SK, Wendel GD, Wenstrom KD, Foley MR. Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine:?A?5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 10; 221(4):311-317.e1.

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Liu H, Zeng H, Shen Y, Zhang F, Sharma M, Lai W, Zhao Y, Tao G, Yuan J, Zhao Y. Assessment Tools for Health Literacy among the General Population: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 08 10; 15(8).

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Ladapo JA, Richards AK, DeWitt CM, Harawa NT, Shoptaw S, Cunningham WE, Mafi JN. Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Care Between HIV-Infected Versus HIV-Uninfected Adults in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Nov 14; 6(11).

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Wey A, Salkowski N, Kremers WK, Schaffhausen CR, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. A kidney offer acceptance decision tool to inform the decision to accept an offer or wait for a better kidney. Am J Transplant. 2018 04; 18(4):897-906.

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Gaies M, Werho DK, Zhang W, Donohue JE, Tabbutt S, Ghanayem NS, Scheurer MA, Costello JM, Gaynor JW, Pasquali SK, Dimick JB, Banerjee M, Schwartz SM. Duration of Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation as a Quality Metric for Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Programs. Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 Feb; 105(2):615-621.

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Yamanaka A, Fialkowski MK, Wilkens L, Li F, Ettienne R, Fleming T, Power J, Deenik J, Coleman P, Leon Guerrero R, Novotny R. Quality assurance of data collection in the multi-site community randomized trial and prevalence survey of the children's healthy living program. BMC Res Notes. 2016 Sep 02; 9(1):432.

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