"Quality Improvement" 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.
The attainment or process of attaining a new level of performance or quality.
| Descriptor ID |
D058996
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J01.293.754 N04.761.744
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| Concept/Terms |
Quality Improvement- Quality Improvement
- Improvement, Quality
- Improvements, Quality
- Quality Improvements
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2015 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| 2016 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10 | 19 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2020 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality Improvement" by people in Profiles.
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Patient Insights to Improve Naloxone Access and Decision Support. Perm J. 2026 06 15; 30(2):151-157.
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Improving clinician knowledge, comfort, and adherence to standard of care for suspected child abuse. BMC Pediatr. 2026 May 25; 26(1).
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Optimizing the community resource specialist to address social needs in primary care: results from a pragmatic quality improvement evaluation. BMC Prim Care. 2025 10 31; 26(1):330.
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An Electronic Clinical Surveillance System to Reduce Failure to Follow Up Abnormal Lab Results and Failure to Order Needed Tests: Description and Methods. J Appl Lab Med. 2025 Sep 03; 10(5):1362-1375.
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First National Effort to Optimize the Performance of Cancer Surgery by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and Cancer Surgery Standards Program: Early Results After Implementation of the Operative Standards. Ann Surg. 2025 Sep 01; 282(3):371-381.
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Improving alcohol-related care in small-medium primary care practices: An evaluation of an adaptation of the SPARC trial intervention for small-medium sized practices. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Jun; 173:209697.
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Zero Suicide Model Implementation and Suicide Attempt Rates in Outpatient Mental Health Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Apr 01; 8(4):e253721.
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Structural innovation for hypoglycemia prevention in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes: Design and implementation of a pragmatic, randomized, quality improvement trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 May; 152:107885.
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Population-Level Identification of Patients With Lynch Syndrome for Clinical Care, Quality Improvement, and Research. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2024 Jun; 8:e2300157.
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Systematic Automated Population-Based Surveillance to Improve Outcomes in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma. J Prim Care Community Health. 2024 Jan-Dec; 15:21501319241306298.