Descriptor English: | Total Quality Management | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Gestión de la Calidad Total
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Gestão da Qualidade Total | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Management par la qualité | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Continuous Quality Management Health Quality Management ISO 9000 Lean Six Sigma Lean Six Sigmas Management, Continuous Quality Management, Total Quality Metric, Sigma Metrics, Sigma Quality Assurance Quality Assurance Standards Quality Assurance System Quality Certification Quality Management Quality Management Systems Sigma Metric Sigma Metrics Sigma, Six Sigmas, Six Six Sigma Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigmas Six Sigmas, Lean Total Quality |
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Tree number(s): |
N04.452.955 N04.761.700.675 N05.700.792 SP1.101.600.258 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017749 | ||||||
Scope note: | The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures. |
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Annotation: | not restricted to health care |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
CL classification EC economics ES ethics HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods OG organization & administration SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
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Previous Indexing: |
Quality Assurance, Health Care (1989-1993) |
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Public MeSH Note: | 94 |
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History Note: | 94 |
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Entry Version: | TQM |
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Related: |
Quality Control
MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 31002 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D017749 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 1994/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 1993/05/05 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 2018/06/29 |
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Total Quality Management
- Preferred
Six Sigma
- Related but not broader or narrower
Lean Six Sigma
- Related but not broader or narrower
ISO 9000
- Narrower
Concept UI |
M0026823 |
Scope note | The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures. |
Preferred term | Total Quality Management |
Entry term(s) |
Continuous Quality Management Health Quality Management Management, Continuous Quality Management, Total Quality Quality Management Total Quality |
Concept UI |
M000599769 |
Scope note | A set of techniques and metric tools used to strive for a near perfect process or production. It targets a defect rate of 3.4 per million or 6 standard deviations (designated as Greek letter sigma). |
Preferred term | Six Sigma |
Entry term(s) |
Metric, Sigma Metrics, Sigma Sigma Metric Sigma Metrics Sigma, Six Sigmas, Six Six Sigmas |
Concept UI |
M000601368 |
Preferred term | Lean Six Sigma |
Entry term(s) |
Lean Six Sigmas Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigmas, Lean |
Concept UI |
FD00061841 |
Scope note | Group of technical standards that establish a quality management model for organizations in general, whatever their type or size. (Adapted from https://bit.ly/3A2gugi) |
Preferred term | ISO 9000 |
Entry term(s) |
Quality Assurance Quality Assurance Standards Quality Assurance System Quality Certification Quality Management Systems |
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