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 188 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	2	0	2
1999	2	2	4
2000	1	2	3
2001	3	1	4
2002	5	2	7
2003	6	0	6
2004	4	1	5
2005	4	5	9
2006	5	3	8
2007	12	5	17
2008	9	2	11
2009	14	1	15
2010	7	4	11
2011	7	3	10
2012	7	7	14
2013	7	1	8
2014	4	10	14
2015	9	6	15
2016	6	0	6
2017	4	1	5
2018	0	2	2
2019	2	4	6
2020	1	1	2
2021	1	0	1
2023	0	1	1
2025	1	1	2

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Milman R, Bevins NB, Alhamami M, Busse N, Dohatcu A, Hulme KW, Jafari ME, LaFontaine SM, Nawfel RD, Nelson JS, Russ MK, Silosky M, Wait JM. AAPM Medical Physics Practice Guideline MPPG 17.a: Quality management for mammography review workstation displays. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2025 Apr; 26(4):e14625.

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Larson DB, Bhargavan-Chatfield M, Tilkin M, Coombs L, Wald C. The Road Map for ACR Practice Accreditation for Radiology Artificial Intelligence. J Am Coll Radiol. 2025 May; 22(5):586-592.

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Khader A, Ali S, Wald C, Wortman J, Broder J. Abdominal peer learning: advantages and lessons learned. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2023 04; 48(4):1526-1535.

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FitzGerald TJ, Followill D, Laurie F, Boterberg T, Hanusik R, Kessel S, Karolczuk K, Iandoli M, Ulin K, Morano K, Bishop-Jodoin M, Kry S, Lowenstein J, Molineu A, Moni J, Cicchetti MG, Prior F, Saltz J, Sharma A, Mandeville HC, Bernier-Chastagner V, Janssens G. Quality assurance in radiation oncology. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 05; 68 Suppl 2:e28609.

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de Rooij M, Isra?l B, Barrett T, Giganti F, Padhani AR, Panebianco V, Richenberg J, Salomon G, Schoots IG, Villeirs G, Walz J, Barentsz JO. Focus on the Quality of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Synopsis of the ESUR/ESUI Recommendations on Quality Assessment and Interpretation of Images and Radiologists' Training. Eur Urol. 2020 10; 78(4):483-485.

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Karam AR, Beland MD. Liver Ultrasound Elastography: Review of Techniques and Clinical Applications. R I Med J (2013). 2020 Jun 01; 103(5):26-29.

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Broder JC, Doyle PA, Kelly L, Wald C. How We Do It: Operationalizing Just Culture in a Radiology Department. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 11; 213(5):986-991.

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Martin SA, Chiodo LM, Wilson A. Retention in care as a quality measure for opioid use disorder. Subst Abus. 2019; 40(4):453-458.

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Wewiorski NJ, Gorman JA, Ellison ML, Hunt MG, Evans L, Charns MP. A site visit protocol for assessing recovery promotion at the program level: An example from the Veterans Health Administration. Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2019 Sep; 42(3):323-328.

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Romanelli JR, Fuchshuber PR, Stulberg JJ, Kowalski RB, Sinha P, Aloia TA, Orlando R. Public reporting and transparency: a primer on public outcomes reporting. Surg Endosc. 2019 07; 33(7):2043-2049.

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