Structured Summary
Abstract
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.
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Classification
Narrower headings
- Benchmarking
- Clinical Audit
- Credentialing
- Facility Regulation and Control
- Guidelines as Topic
- Health Personnel Alert Fatigue
- Healthcare Near Miss
- Healthcare Time Out
- Laboratory Proficiency Testing
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
- Professional Review Organizations
- Professional Staff Committees
- Public Reporting of Healthcare Data
- Total Quality Management
- Utilization Review
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Synonyms
15 entry terms
- Healthcare Quality Assurance
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Quality Assurance, Healthcare
- Assurance, Healthcare Quality
- Assurances, Healthcare Quality
- Healthcare Quality Assurances
- Quality Assurances, Healthcare
- Health Care Quality Assessment
- Healthcare Quality Assessment
- Quality Assessment, Health Care
- Quality Assessment, Healthcare
- Assessment, Healthcare Quality
- Assessments, Healthcare Quality
- Healthcare Quality Assessments
- Quality Assessments, Healthcare
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Aspects Covered
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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History Note
80; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM was see QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE 1978-79
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Previous Indexing
- Quality of Health Care (1968-1979)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Health Care Quality Assurance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011785. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011785
- Health Care Quality Assurance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65591542