 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 Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Quality Assurance, Health Care" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| 1981 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1982 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1983 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1984 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1985 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1986 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1987 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 1988 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 1989 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 1990 | 13 | 1 | 14 | | 1991 | 12 | 4 | 16 | | 1992 | 9 | 3 | 12 | | 1993 | 7 | 7 | 14 | | 1994 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 1995 | 4 | 7 | 11 | | 1996 | 19 | 2 | 21 | | 1997 | 12 | 8 | 20 | | 1998 | 16 | 16 | 32 | | 1999 | 9 | 20 | 29 | | 2000 | 20 | 16 | 36 | | 2001 | 27 | 19 | 46 | | 2002 | 22 | 12 | 34 | | 2003 | 27 | 24 | 51 | | 2004 | 32 | 30 | 62 | | 2005 | 40 | 23 | 63 | | 2006 | 53 | 32 | 85 | | 2007 | 53 | 34 | 87 | | 2008 | 60 | 32 | 92 | | 2009 | 65 | 42 | 107 | | 2010 | 69 | 43 | 112 | | 2011 | 53 | 23 | 76 | | 2012 | 59 | 27 | 86 | | 2013 | 47 | 32 | 79 | | 2014 | 59 | 30 | 89 | | 2015 | 48 | 23 | 71 | | 2016 | 17 | 8 | 25 | | 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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A Salzberg C, Bitton A, Lipsitz SR, Franz C, Shaykevich S, Newmark LP, Kwatra J, Bates DW. The Impact of Alternative Payment in Chronically Ill and Older Patients in the Patient-centered Medical Home. Med Care. 2017 May; 55(5):483-492.
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Lin Y, Haspel RL. Transfusion medicine education for non-transfusion medicine physicians: a structured review. Vox Sang. 2017 Feb; 112(2):97-104.
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Abujudeh H, Kaewlai R, Shaqdan K, Bruno MA. Key Principles in Quality and Safety in Radiology. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Mar; 208(3):W101-W109.
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Boos J, Fang J, Snell A, Hallett D, Siewert B, Eisenberg RL, Brook OR. Electronic Kiosks for Patient Satisfaction Survey in Radiology. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Mar; 208(3):577-584.
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Harrison BT, Dillon DA, Richardson AL, Brock JE, Guidi AJ, Lester SC. Quality Assurance in Breast Pathology: Lessons Learned From a Review of Amended Reports. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2017 Feb; 141(2):260-266.
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Gandhi TK. Safety Lessons from the NIH Clinical Center. N Engl J Med. 2016 Nov 03; 375(18):1705-1707.
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Gurley KL, Wolfe RE, Burstein JL, Edlow JA, Hill JF, Grossman SA. Use of Physician Concerns and Patient Complaints as Quality Assurance Markers in Emergency Medicine. West J Emerg Med. 2016 Nov; 17(6):749-755.
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Ahmed F, Michelen S, Massoud R, Kaafarani H. Are the SDGs leaving safer surgical systems behind? Int J Surg. 2016 Dec; 36(Pt A):74-75.
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Xu LW, Li A, Swinney C, Babu M, Veeravagu A, Wolfe SQ, Nahed BV, Ratliff JK. An assessment of data and methodology of online surgeon scorecards. J Neurosurg Spine. 2017 Feb; 26(2):235-242.
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Glotzbecker MP, Wang K, Waters PM, McCarthy J, Flynn JM, Vitale MG. Quality, Safety, and Value in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery. J Pediatr Orthop. 2016 Sep; 36(6):549-57.
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