Quality of Health Care

"Quality of 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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The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.

Descriptor ID	D011787
MeSH Number(s)	N04.761 N05.715
Concept/Terms	Quality of Health Care Quality of Health Care Health Care Quality Quality of Healthcare Healthcare Quality Quality of Care Care Qualities Care Quality Pharmacy Audit Pharmacy Audit Audit, Pharmacy Pharmacy Audits

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

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]

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Bar chart showing 135 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	1	0	1
2000	0	1	1
2001	3	1	4
2002	2	0	2
2003	1	5	6
2004	2	1	3
2005	2	4	6
2006	4	1	5
2007	4	4	8
2008	3	4	7
2009	2	4	6
2010	2	2	4
2011	2	2	4
2012	5	1	6
2013	2	4	6
2014	3	2	5
2015	6	3	9
2016	3	2	5
2017	5	6	11
2018	2	2	4
2019	5	5	10
2020	5	2	7
2021	1	4	5
2022	2	1	3
2023	0	3	3
2024	1	1	2
2025	0	2	2

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Liaw W, Adepoju OE, Fuentes CG, Luo J, Glasheen B, King B, Kakadiaris I, Prewitt T, Womack P, Dobbins J, Woodard L. Comorbidities, Utilization, and Quality of Care as Predictors of Diabetes Complications. J Am Board Fam Med. 2026 Jan; 39(1).

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Leung LB, Brayton CE, Shepardson RL, Gray CP, Lee ML, Funderburk JS, Fortney JC. Leveraging COVID-19 to modernise depression care for VA primary care populations: protocol for a sequential explanatory mixed method evaluation. BMJ Open. 2025 Dec 15; 15(12):e094624.

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Dunn MR, Niu H, Li D, Emerson MA, Thompson CA, Nichols HB, Roberson ML, Wheeler SB, Hyslop T, Elston Lafata J, Troester MA. Applying a Novel Measure of Community-Level Healthcare Access to Assess Breast Cancer Care Timeliness. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jul 01; 34(7):1199-1209.

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Lewis ME, Blackmore I, Kamaka ML, Wildcat S, Anderson-Buettner A, Modde E, Myhra L, Smith JB, Stately AL. "Understand the Way We Walk Our Life": Indigenous Patients' Experiences and Recommendations for Healthcare in the United States. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Mar 17; 22(3).

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Camplain C, Camplain R. The Unmet Health Care Needs of Indigenous People Incarcerated in Tribal Jails. JAMA. 2024 07 23; 332(4):279-280.

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Sharma S, Campbell OMR, Oswald WE, Adhikari D, Paudel P, Lal B, Penn-Kekana L. Increased utilisation and quality: a focus on inequality and a learning health system approach-explaining Nepal's success in reducing maternal and newborn mortality 2000-2020. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 May 06; 9(Suppl 2).

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Hill SK, Bempong-Ahun N, Okolo ID, Lalla AT, Worku D, Asres T, Philpotts L, Fallah PN, Varallo J, Corlew S, Kamfwa P, Parham GP, Hicks ML, Ibbotson G, Randall T. Improving access to safe, quality surgical care for gynecologic cancers through capacity-building interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2024 May; 165(2):552-561.

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Alterio MM, Tobias M, Koehl A, Woods AL, Sun K, Campbell MJ, Graves CE. Who Serves Where: A Geospatial Analysis of Access to Endocrine Surgeons in the United States and Puerto Rico. Surgery. 2024 01; 175(1):32-40.

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Hassan S, Gujral UP, Quarells RC, Rhodes EC, Shah MK, Obi J, Lee WH, Shamambo L, Weber MB, Narayan KMV. Disparities in diabetes prevalence and management by race and ethnicity in the USA: defining a path forward. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2023 07; 11(7):509-524.

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Verbiest S, McClain E, Hernandez N. A roadmap toward equitable, coordinated, quality reproductive care for women with chronic conditions. Health Serv Res. 2022 12; 57(6):1379-1383.

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