 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.
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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality Assurance, Health Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1986 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2006 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 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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Renshaw AA, Gould EW. Extended laboratory information system downtime: Implementing a backup laboratory information system in the cytology laboratory. Cancer Cytopathol. 2015 Jan; 123(1):5-6.
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Renshaw AA, Gould EW. Increasing agreement over time in interlaboratory anatomic pathology consultation material. Am J Clin Pathol. 2013 Aug; 140(2):215-8.
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Renshaw AA, Gould EW. Impact of immediate access to the electronic medical record on anatomic pathology performance. Am J Clin Pathol. 2013 Jul; 140(1):109-11.
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Renshaw AA. 88172 is more than counting cells: ensuring the quality of immediate assessment of fine-needle aspiration material. Am J Clin Pathol. 2012 Jul; 138(1):27-8.
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Renshaw A, Gould EW. Quality assurance measures for critical diagnoses in anatomic pathology. Am J Clin Pathol. 2012 Mar; 137(3):466-9.
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Mantel JL. Accountable Care Organizations: can we have our cake and eat it too? Seton Hall Law Rev. 2012; 42(4):1393-442.
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Palmer HR, Weston J, Gentry L, Salazar M, Putney K, Frost C, Tipton JA, Cottreau J, Tam VH, Garey KW. Improving patient care through implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011 Nov 15; 68(22):2170-4.
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Renshaw AA, Elsheikh TM. Controls in quality assessment in gynecologic cytology: A rational approach to workload limits for the ThinPrep imaging system. Diagn Cytopathol. 2010 Oct; 38(10):772-5.
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Birtcher KK, Pan W, Labresh KA, Cannon CP, Fonarow GC, Ellrodt G. Performance achievement award program for Get With The Guidelines--Coronary Artery Disease is associated with global and sustained improvement in cardiac care for patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2010 Sep; 9(3):103-12.
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Renshaw AA, Auger M, Birdsong G, Cibas ES, Henry M, Hughes JH, Moriarty A, Tench W, Wilbur DC, Elsheikh TM. ASC/SIL ratio for cytotechnologists: A survey of its utility in clinical practice. Diagn Cytopathol. 2010 Mar; 38(3):180-3.
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