Disciplines and Occupations

Health Care Outcome Assessment

Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).

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Abstract

Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).

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Synonyms

23 entry terms
  • Assessment, Outcome
  • Assessment, Outcomes
  • Outcome Assessment
  • Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Outcomes Assessment
  • Assessment, Outcome (Health Care)
  • Assessments, Outcome
  • Assessments, Outcome (Health Care)
  • Assessments, Outcomes
  • Outcome Assessments
  • Outcome Assessments (Health Care)
  • Outcomes Assessments
  • Outcome Measures
  • Outcome Studies
  • Outcomes Research
  • Measure, Outcome
  • Measures, Outcome
  • Outcome Measure
  • Outcome Study
  • Research, Outcomes
  • Studies, Outcome
  • Study, Outcome

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

note category: for admin aspects of patient assessment; outcome only: for outcome assessment with process assessment, OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) and TREATMENT OUTCOME are available

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History Note

2020 (1992); was OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) 1992-2019; for PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT use OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) 1979-1991

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Previous Indexing

  • Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) (1979-1991)

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  2. N04w.761w.559w.590
  3. N05.715w.360.575w.575

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Health Care Outcome Assessment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017063. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017063
  2. Health Care Outcome Assessment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65494947