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Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes.

Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. Researchers measure health care quality to identify problems caused by overuse, underuse, or misuse of health resources.

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released six domains to measure and describe quality of care in health.

While essential for determining the effect of health services research interventions, measuring quality of care poses some challenges due to the limited number of outcomes that are measurable.

Structural measures describe the providers' ability to provide high quality care, process measures describe the actions taken to maintain or improve community health, and outcome measures describe the impact of a health care intervention.

Furthermore, due to strict regulations placed on health services research, data sources are not always complete.

Assessment of health care quality may occur on two different levels: that of the individual patient and that of populations.

At the level of the individual patient, or micro-level, assessment focuses on services at the point of delivery and its subsequent effects. At the population level, or macro-level, assessments of health care quality include indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality rates, incidence, and prevalence of certain health conditions

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