 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, Health Care
- Health Care Quality Assessment
- Quality Assessment, Healthcare
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Quality Assurance, Health Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2015 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2012 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2010 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2009 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2008 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2006 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2004 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2002 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1995 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1991 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Assurance, Health Care" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Ro SS, Housey J, Bermudez T, Ferguson E, Sachdeva R, Border W. Comprehensive Assessment of Pediatric Echocardiographic Discrepancy Rates Using Real-Time Adjudicated Quality Assurance: A Ten-Year Experience. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2024 Jul; 37(7):714-716.
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Dogan N, Mijnheer BJ, Padgett K, Nalichowski A, Wu C, Nyflot MJ, Olch AJ, Papanikolaou N, Shi J, Holmes SM, Moran J, Greer PB. AAPM Task Group Report 307: Use of EPIDs for Patient-Specific IMRT and VMAT QA. Med Phys. 2023 Aug; 50(8):e865-e903.
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FitzGerald TJ, Followill D, Laurie F, Boterberg T, Hanusik R, Kessel S, Karolczuk K, Iandoli M, Ulin K, Morano K, Bishop-Jodoin M, Kry S, Lowenstein J, Molineu A, Moni J, Cicchetti MG, Prior F, Saltz J, Sharma A, Mandeville HC, Bernier-Chastagner V, Janssens G. Quality assurance in radiation oncology. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 05; 68 Suppl 2:e28609.
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McCulloch J, Pawlowski J, Kirby N, Rasmussen K, Shi Z, Myers P, Stathakis S, Papanikolaou N, Saenz DL. Patient-specific dose quality assurance of single-isocenter multiple brain metastasis stereotactic radiosurgery using PTW Octavius 4D. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2020 Sep; 21(9):107-115.
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Alexandrian AN, Mavroidis P, Narayanasamy G, McConnell KA, Kabat CN, George RB, Defoor DL, Kirby N, Papanikolaou N, Stathakis S. Incorporating biological modeling into patient-specific plan verification. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2020 Mar; 21(3):94-107.
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Narayanasamy G, Morrill S, Cousins D, Liu J, Deshazer G, Garner W, Galhardo E, Serletis D, Penagaricano J. Radiosurgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy following ROSE trial guidelines - A planning comparison between Gamma Knife, Eclipse, and Brainlab. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2019 Oct; 20(10):134-141.
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Wang J, Siddicky SF, Oliver TE, Dohm MP, Barnes CL, Mannen EM. Biomechanical Changes Following Knee Arthroplasty During Sit-To-Stand Transfers: Systematic Review. J Arthroplasty. 2019 Oct; 34(10):2494-2501.
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Curci NE, Gartland P, Shankar PR, Montgomery JS, Miller DC, George AK, Davenport MS. Long-distance longitudinal prostate MRI quality assurance: from startup to 12 months. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2018 09; 43(9):2505-2512.
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Miften M, Olch A, Mihailidis D, Moran J, Pawlicki T, Molineu A, Li H, Wijesooriya K, Shi J, Xia P, Papanikolaou N, Low DA. Tolerance limits and methodologies for IMRT measurement-based verification QA: Recommendations of AAPM Task Group No. 218. Med Phys. 2018 Apr; 45(4):e53-e83.
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Stanley DN, Rasmussen K, Kirby N, Papanikolaou N, Guti?rrez AN. An evaluation of the stability of image quality parameters of Elekta X-ray volume imager and iViewGT imaging systems. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018 May; 19(3):64-70.
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Amith M, He Z, Bian J, Lossio-Ventura JA, Tao C. Assessing the practice of biomedical ontology evaluation: Gaps and opportunities. J Biomed Inform. 2018 04; 80:1-13.
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Berlinski A, Chervinskiy SK, Simmons AL, Leisenring P, Harwell SA, Lawrence DJ, Jones SM, Carroll JL, Perry TT. Delivery of high-quality pediatric spirometry in rural communities: A novel use for telemedicine. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018 May - Jun; 6(3):1042-1044.
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He Z, Tao C, Bian J, Dumontier M, Hogan WR. Semantics-Powered Healthcare Engineering and Data Analytics. J Healthc Eng. 2017; 2017:7983473.
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Houck CS, Deshpande JK, Flick RP. The American College of Surgeons Children's Surgery Verification and Quality Improvement Program: implications for anesthesiologists. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2017 Jun; 30(3):376-382.
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Chien AT, Kuhlthau KA, Toomey SL, Quinn JA, Okumura MJ, Kuo DZ, Houtrow AJ, Van Cleave J, Landrum MB, Jang J, Janmey I, Furdyna MJ, Schuster MA. Quality of Primary Care for Children With Disabilities Enrolled in Medicaid. Acad Pediatr. 2017 May - Jun; 17(4):443-449.
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Pokhrel D, Sood S, McClinton C, Saleh H, Badkul R, Jiang H, Stepp T, Camarata P, Wang F. Linac-based stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in the treatment of refractory trigeminal neuralgia: Detailed description of SRS procedure and reported clinical outcomes. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2017 Mar; 18(2):136-143.
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Bansal M, Abdallah AO, Pennisi A, Arnaoutakis K, Makhoul I, Mehta P. Improving Communication on Intent of Chemotherapy Using QOPI Scores and PDSA Cycles. J Cancer Educ. 2016 12; 31(4):736-741.
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Wilbur MB, Mannschreck DB, Angarita AM, Matsuno RK, Tanner EJ, Stone RL, Levinson KL, Temkin SM, Makary MA, Leung CA, Deutschendorf A, Pronovost PJ, Brown A, Fader AN. Unplanned 30-day hospital readmission as a quality measure in gynecologic oncology. Gynecol Oncol. 2016 Dec; 143(3):604-610.
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Sharafinski ME, Sehnert E, Moe D, Zhang L, Simpson P, Vo NJ. Pediatric Gastrojejunostomy Tube Replacement: Effects of Communication on the Need for After-Hours Procedures. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2016 09; 63(3):e27-30.
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Gurien LA, Ra JH, Kerwin AJ, Nussbaum MS, Crandall M, deVilla J, Tepas JJ. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program integration with Morbidity and Mortality conference is essential to success in the march to zero. Am J Surg. 2016 Oct; 212(4):623-628.
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Waldron L, Riester M, Ramos M, Parmigiani G, Birrer M. The Doppelg?nger Effect: Hidden Duplicates in Databases of Transcriptome Profiles. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2016 11; 108(11).
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Koru G, Alhuwail D, Topaz M, Norcio AF, Mills ME. Investigating the Challenges and Opportunities in Home Care to Facilitate Effective Information Technology Adoption. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2016 Jan; 17(1):53-8.
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Gramling R, Stanek S, Ladwig S, Gajary-Coots E, Cimino J, Anderson W, Norton SA, Aslakson RA, Ast K, Elk R, Garner KK, Gramling R, Grudzen C, Kamal AH, Lamba S, LeBlanc TW, Rhodes RL, Roeland E, Schulman-Green D, Unroe KT. Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 Feb; 51(2):150-4.
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Stathakis S, Mavroidis P, Narayanasamy G, Markovic M, Myers P, Papanikolaou N. Stereotactic body radiation therapy patient specific quality assurance using a two-dimensional array at extended source to surface distance. J BUON. 2015 Jul-Aug; 20(4):1154-63.
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Defoor DL, Vazquez-Quino LA, Mavroidis P, Papanikolaou N, Stathakis S. Anatomy-based, patient-specific VMAT QA using EPID or MLC log files. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2015 May 08; 16(3):5283.
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Narayanasamy G, Zalman T, Ha CS, Papanikolaou N, Stathakis S. Evaluation of Dosimetry Check software for IMRT patient-specific quality assurance. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2015 May 08; 16(3):5427.
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Stanley DN, Papanikolaou N, Gutierrez AN. An evaluation of the stability of image-quality parameters of Varian on-board imaging (OBI) and EPID imaging systems. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2015 Mar 08; 16(2):5088.
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Sardar P, Kundu A, Nairooz R, Chatterjee S, Ledley GS, Aronow WS. Health resource variability in the achievement of optimal performance and clinical outcome in ischemic heart disease. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2015 Feb; 17(2):1.
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