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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.10973
EAN: 9780309072809
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0309072808
Label: National Academies Press
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: July 18, 2001
Publisher: National Academies Press
Studio: National Academies Press
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(Institute of Medicine) The second in a series of texts from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project, making an urgent call for fundamental change to close the gap in quality of health care. Documents the causes of the quality gap, identifying current practices impeding quality health care today. DNLM: Health Care Reform--methods--United States.
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America projectToday's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America.Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: - A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system.
- A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships.
- A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality.
- Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems.
Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
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Rating:  - Defines quality healthcare
Great book which is still relevant in these changing times. Healthcare is still a long way from delivering quality and this book explains the gaps
Rating:  - This book will not get you there
This book is written as the product of an Institute of Medicine initiative to reduce the mortality and morbidity from errors in the American healthcare system. The Institute of Medicine is a private organization created by congressional charter to advise the federal government on specific matters. Their mission statement is to "advance and disseminate knowledge to improve human health." This book is the final report of the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America. Their homepage ... Read More
Rating: - Essential Reading for Everyone in Health Care
If you are in anyway involved in health care, this is essential reading. Physicians, hospital administrators, purchasers, health plan execs, and grad students must immediately put this on the top of their reading list. Lives may depend on it.
In it, the highly respected Institute of Medicine builds a powerful case for how the current health care system is severely broken and how it has produced a "chasm" between what we known must be done for patients (based on current science of medicine) ... Read More
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