Glossary Term
Quality Assurance
Performance MetricsEN
Definition
Programs of regular assessment of medical and nursing activities to evaluate the quality of medical care including all actions taken to ensure that standards and procedures are adhered to and that delivered products or services meet performance requirements.
Extended Notes
Source: National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus 26.09d, C15381. NCI definition, reproduced without modification under CC BY 4.0. Source identity and definition checked automatically on 2026-10-18. No individual clinical interpretation or human reviewer is asserted.
Also Known As
QAQaulity Assurance ActivityQuality Assurance
References
- NCI Thesaurus 26.09d — Quality Assurance (C15381)
- Source: National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus 26.09d, C15381. NCI definition, reproduced without modification under CC BY 4.0.
- ACPSEM guideline: commissioning and quality assurance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Linear Accelerators. — Phys Eng Sci Med, 2026-10-09 (PMID 42853466; literature)
- Implementation of Duke Machine Learning Data Quality Assurance Framework in a Pakistani Healthcare Institution. — Health Informatics J, 2026-10-07 (PMID 42842489; literature)