Health Care

Health Care Outcome and Process Assessment

Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.

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Abstract

Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.

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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Outcome and Process Assessment
  • Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Donabedian Model
  • Donabedian Triad
  • Structure Process Outcome Triad
  • Model, Donabedian
  • Triad, Donabedian

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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

must discuss both outcome & process: OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) is available for only outcome, PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) is available for only process

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History Note

2020 (1979); was OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) 1979-2019

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Previous Indexing

  • Quality of Health Care (1968-1978)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Health Care Outcome and Process Assessment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010043. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010043
  2. Health Care Outcome and Process Assessment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcomes_research
  3. Health Care Outcome and Process Assessment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7111916