Health Care

Total Quality Management

The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Continuous Quality Management
  • Management, Continuous Quality
  • Management, Total Quality
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Sigma Metrics
  • Six Sigma
  • Lean Six Sigmas
  • Metric, Sigma
  • Metrics, Sigma
  • Sigma Metric
  • Sigma, Six
  • Sigmas, Six
  • Six Sigma, Lean
  • Six Sigmas
  • Six Sigmas, Lean

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

not restricted to health care

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History Note

94

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Previous Indexing

  • Quality Assurance, Health Care (1989-1993)

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Tree Numbers

  1. N04w.452.955w
  2. N04w.761w.700.675w
  3. N05.700.792w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Total Quality Management. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017749. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017749
  2. Total Quality Management. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_quality_management
  3. Total Quality Management. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381001