Concept information
Preferred term
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Alert Fatigue, Health Personnel
- Benchmarking
- Clinical Audit
- Credentialing
- Facility Regulation and Control
- Guidelines as Topic
- Laboratory Proficiency Testing
- Near Miss, Healthcare
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
- Professional Review Organizations
- Professional Staff Committees
- Public Reporting of Healthcare Data
- Time Out, Healthcare
- Total Quality Management
- Utilization Review
Entry terms
- Assurance, Healthcare Quality
- Assurances, Healthcare Quality
- Health Care Quality Assurance
- Healthcare Quality Assurance
- Healthcare Quality Assurances
- Quality Assurance, Healthcare
- Quality Assurances, Healthcare
Scope note
- 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.
History note
- 80; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM was see QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE 1978-79
In other languages
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Finnish
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terveydenhuollon laadunhallinta
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terveydenhuollon laaduntarkkailu
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terveydenhuollon laadunvalvonta
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Swedish
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Bedömning av vårdkvalitet
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011785
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