Quality of Health Care

The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.

Year introduced: 1968

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Tree Number(s): N04.761, N05.715

MeSH Unique ID: D011787

Entry Terms:

• Health Care Quality
• Quality of Care
• Care Quality
• Quality of Healthcare
• Healthcare Quality
• Pharmacy Audit
• Audit, Pharmacy
• Pharmacy Audits

See Also:

• Professional Staff Committees
• National Practitioner Data Bank
• Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

All MeSH Categories
Health Care Category
Health Services Administration
Quality of Health Care
Advance Directive Adherence
Clinical Competence
Guideline Adherence
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Outcome Assessment, Health Care +
Process Assessment, Health Care
Peer Review, Health Care
Professional Review Organizations
Program Evaluation
Benchmarking
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Alert Fatigue, Health Personnel
Benchmarking
Clinical Audit +
Guidelines as Topic +
Laboratory Proficiency Testing
Near Miss, Healthcare
Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
Time Out, Healthcare
Total Quality Management
Quality Improvement
Meaningful Use
Value-Based Health Insurance
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Risk Adjustment
Standard of Care
Utilization Review
Concurrent Review
Drug Utilization Review +

All MeSH Categories
Health Care Category
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Quality of Health Care
Clinical Competence
Epidemiologic Factors
Age Factors +
Bias +
Causality +
Comorbidity +
Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic +
Race Factors
Reproductive History
Sex Factors
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
Advance Directive Adherence
Data Collection +
Epidemiologic Research Design +
Epidemiologic Study Characteristics +
Evaluation Studies as Topic +
Guideline Adherence
Independent Medical Evaluation
Organizational Case Studies
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care +
Patient Satisfaction
Program Evaluation +
Root Cause Analysis
Statistics as Topic +
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
Treatment Switching
Narrative Medicine
Peer Review, Health Care
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Standard of Care
Patient Handoff