Biomaterial Database

Quality improvement in North Carolina's public health departments. 2013

Greg D Randolph, and Jim Bruckner, and Claire H See

Center for Public Health Quality, PO Box 18763, Raleigh, NC 27619, USA. Greg.Randolph@phquality.org

North Carolina has been a leader in the application of quality improvement (QI) to public health practice. Over the past decade, numerous developments have served to accelerate the adoption of QI in North Carolina's local health departments. The outstanding results from the widespread application of QI should help North Carolina to become a healthier state.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009657	North Carolina	State bounded on the north by Virginia, on the east and Southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Georgia and South Carolina, and on the west by Tennessee.
D011635	Public Health Administration	Management of public health organizations or agencies.	Administration, Public Health
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013219	State Government	The level of governmental organization and function below that of the national or country-wide government.	Government, State,Provincial Government,Government, Provincial,Governments, State,State Governments
D049674	History, 21st Century	Time period from 2001 through 2100 of the common era.	21st Century History,21st Cent. History (Medicine),21st Cent. History of Medicine,21st Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 21st Century,History of Medicine, 21st Cent.,History, Twenty-first Century,Medical History, 21st Cent.,Medicine, 21st Cent.,21st Cent. Histories (Medicine),21st Cent. Medicines,21st Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 21st (Medicine),Cent. History, 21st (Medicine),Cent. Medicine, 21st,Cent. Medicines, 21st,Century Histories, 21st,Century Histories, Twenty-first,Century History, 21st,Century History, Twenty-first,Histories, 21st Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 21st Century,Histories, Twenty-first Century,History, 21st Cent. (Medicine),History, Twenty first Century,Medicines, 21st Cent.,Twenty-first Century Histories,Twenty-first Century History
D058996	Quality Improvement	The attainment or process of attaining a new level of performance or quality.	Improvement, Quality,Improvements, Quality,Quality Improvements