Mesh term Quality Assurance, Health Care
Browse to parent terms:Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Quality of Health Care
Description
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.Browse to child terms:
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
Time Out, Healthcare
Total Quality Management
Utilization Review
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