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Abstract
An evaluation procedure that focuses on how care is delivered, based on the premise that there are standards of performance for activities undertaken in delivering patient care, in which the specific actions taken, events occurring, and human interactions are compared with accepted standards.
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Synonyms
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- Assessment, Process
- Process Assessment (Health Care)
- Process Assessment, Health Care
- Assessment, Process (Health Care)
- Assessments, Process
- Assessments, Process (Health Care)
- Process Assessment
- Process Assessments
- Process Assessments (Health Care)
- Process Measures
- Measure, Process
- Measures, Process
- Process Measure
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10 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
note category; process only: for outcome assessment with process assessment, OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) is available
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History Note
2020 (1992); was PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) 1992-2019; use OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) 1979-1991
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Previous Indexing
- Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) (1979-1991)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Health Care Process Assessment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017064. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017064
- Health Care Process Assessment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67103140