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.
| Descriptor ID |
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, Healthcare
- Quality Assessment, Health Care
- Health Care Quality Assessment
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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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 30 | 22 | 52 |
| 2018 | 30 | 25 | 55 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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What it takes to save lives: An assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities in temporary COVID-19 isolation and treatment centers of Southern Ethiopia: A mixed-methods evaluation. PLoS One. 2021; 16(8):e0256086.
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Serological diagnostic for SARS-CoV-2: an experimental External Quality Assessment Scheme. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2021 10 26; 59(11):1878-1884.
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Systemness Taps the Power of Interdependence in Healthcare. Front Health Serv Manage. 2021 Jul 01; 37(4):17-27.
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Out-of-Hospital COVID-19 Deaths: Consequences for Quality of Medical Care and Accuracy of Cause of Death Coding. Am J Public Health. 2021 07; 111(S2):S101-S106.
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The versatility of external quality assessment for the surveillance of laboratory and in vitro diagnostic performance: SARS-CoV-2 viral genome detection in Austria. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2021 09 27; 59(10):1735-1744.
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Laboratory professionals' attitudes towards ISO 15189:2012 accreditation: an anonymous survey of three Croatian accredited medical laboratories. Biochem Med (Zagreb). 2021 Jun 15; 31(2):020712.
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Validation Checklist for Massive Vaccination Centers. Ann Ig. 2021 Sep-Oct; 33(5):513-517.
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COVID-19-another influential event impacts on laboratory medicine management. J Clin Lab Anal. 2021 Jun; 35(6):e23804.
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Characteristics and quality of nursing homes reporting COVID-19 admissions from hospitals. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 09; 69(9):2440-2442.
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Application of DNA sequences in anti-counterfeiting: Current progress and challenges. Int J Pharm. 2021 Jun 01; 602:120580.