Concept information
Preferred term
quality of health care
Definition
- Quality of healthcare refers to the degree to which healthcare services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes that are consistent with current professional knowledge. To improve the quality of healthcare, many evaluation and standardization practices have been developed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Quality of Healthcare]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- advance directive adherence
- clinical competence
- guideline adherence
- health care evaluation mechanisms
- health care peer review
- health care quality assurance
- health care quality indicators
- outcome and process assessment (health care)
- professional review organizations
- quality improvement
- standard of care
- utilization review
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/quality_of_health_care
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