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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality of Health Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality of Health Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 372 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	4	0	4
1998	2	0	2
1999	0	4	4
2000	1	2	3
2001	1	2	3
2002	3	3	6
2003	2	4	6
2004	6	6	12
2005	5	1	6
2006	3	5	8
2007	3	2	5
2008	15	8	23
2009	6	8	14
2010	18	10	28
2011	9	9	18
2012	9	12	21
2013	10	8	18
2014	17	7	24
2015	10	13	23
2016	12	10	22
2017	18	8	26
2018	11	7	18
2019	9	9	18
2020	10	9	19
2021	5	7	12
2022	2	2	4
2023	0	9	9
2024	3	5	8
2025	1	6	7
2026	1	0	1

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

Vitello-Cicciu J, Gazarian P. Rethinking Nursing Outcome Measures: A Call to Action. J Nurs Adm. 2026 Mar 01; 56(3):E13-E14.

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Ngangmeni LN, Wallace KF, Kroll-Desrosiers A, Mattocks KM. Perceived Importance of Obstetric Quality Measures to Veterans Receiving Community-Based Obstetric Care. Matern Child Health J. 2026 Jan; 30(1):134-141.

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Murphy JA, Gazarian PK. The Relationship Between Nursing Quality and Patient Experience in Acute Care Settings. J Patient Saf. 2026 Mar 01; 22(2):139-144.

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Zimmerman B, Madsen TE, Giampaolo G, Rogers J, Stroud HD, Boulger CT, Prats MI, Wu A, Leo M, Pare JR, Muruganandan M, Kaine J, Brenner DS, Soriano PC, Villarroel NA, Schroeder ML, Strokes N, Tyson A, Gleeson T, Hill M, Baird J, McGregor AJ, Dwyer KH. Multicenter Study Evaluating Impact of Patient and Sonographer Demographics on Quality of Focused Cardiac Ultrasounds. West J Emerg Med. 2025 Oct 03; 26(5):1423-1430.

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Reuben DB, Stevens AB, Gill TM, Williamson J, Volpi E, Lichtenstein ML, Jennings LA, Galloway R, Summapund J, Araujo K, Bass D, Weitzman L, Tan ZS, Evertson LC, Yang M, Green AS, Samper-Ternent R, Borek P, Xu Y, Peduzzi P, Greene EJ. Patient and Caregiver Outcomes of Health System, Community-Based, and Usual Dementia Care: A Prespecified Analysis of the Dementia Care Study (D-CARE) Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 10 01; 185(10):1227-1236.

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Isbell LM, Le V, Huff NR, Beals K, Tager JB, Kimball E, Whillock S, Boudreaux ED. Medical Care for Patients With Mental Health and/or Substance-Use Disorders: A Qualitative Investigation of Emergency Department Patient Experiences and Recommendations. Health Serv Res. 2025 Aug; 60(4):e14617.

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Attanasio LB, Geissler KH. "On the OB Side of Things, It's Completely Disconnected": Early Implementation of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and Health Care in the Perinatal Period. Womens Health Issues. 2025 Mar-Apr; 35(2):89-96.

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Byatt N, Zimmermann M, Lightbourne TC, Sankaran P, Haider UK, Sheldrick RC, Eliasziw M, Moore Simas TA. Addressing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in obstetric settings: results of a cluster randomized controlled trial of two approaches. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2025 Feb; 7(2):101599.

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Geissler KH, Shieh MS, Ash AS, Lindenauer PK, Krishnan JA, Goff SL. Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and Disparities in Pediatric Asthma Care. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Nov 01; 178(11):1208-1215.

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Lu A, Pian-Smith MCM, Burden A, Fernandez GL, Fortner SA, Rege RV, Slakey DP, Velasco JM, Cooper JB, Steadman RH. Quality and Simulation Professionals Should Collaborate. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2024 12; 50(12):882-889.

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