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Quality Assurance
A system of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure
that all research, testing, monitoring, sampling, analysis, and other
technical and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality.
Quality assurance serves to benefit the quality of care.
Quality of Care
A level of performance or accomplishment that characterizes health care.
Ultimately, measures of the quality of care always depend upon clinical
outcomes or value judgments, but there are ingredients and determinants of
quality that can be measured objectively, such as structure, process or
procedures, and outcomes.
Quality of Life
The degree to which individuals perceive themselves as able to function
physically, emotionally and socially. In a general sense, it is that which
makes life worth living. In a more "quantitative" sense it refers to a
person's time remaining alive, free of impairment, disability, or
handicap.