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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles.
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How to estimate glomerular filtration rate in sub-Saharan Africa: design and methods of the African Research into Kidney Diseases (ARK) study. BMC Nephrol. 2020 01 15; 21(1):20.
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An overview of the quality assurance programme for HIV rapid testing in South Africa: Outcome of a 2-year phased implementation of quality assurance program. PLoS One. 2019; 14(9):e0221906.
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Development of a tool for assessing quality of comprehensive care provided by community health workers in a community-based care programme in South Africa. BMJ Open. 2019 09 05; 9(9):e030677.
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Verification of the Performance of a Fully Automated Coagulation Analyzer and Ongoing Assessment of External Quality Assurance Results in an Academic Laboratory in South Africa. Clin Lab. 2019 Jul 01; 65(7).
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A pilot study to introduce a local external quality assurance scheme for D-dimers in the National Health Laboratory Service, in South Africa. Int J Lab Hematol. 2019 Apr; 41(2):298-303.
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Building capacity in neurodevelopment assessment of children in sub-Saharan Africa: A quality assurance model to implement standardized neurodevelopment testing. Child Neuropsychol. 2019 05; 25(4):466-481.
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South African clinical practice guidelines: A landscape analysis. S Afr Med J. 2017 Dec 13; 108(1):23-27.
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Relationships between structure, process and outcome to assess quality of integrated chronic disease management in a rural South African setting: applying a structural equation model. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 03 23; 17(1):229.
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The accuracy of nurse performance of the triage process in a tertiary hospital emergency department in Gauteng Province, South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2017 02 27; 107(3):243-247.
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Characterizing breast conditions at an open-access breast clinic in South Africa: a model that is more than cancer care for a resource-limited setting. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 01 21; 17(1):63.