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The Quality of Health Care in America

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In 1996, the Institute of Medicine launched a concerted, ongoing effort focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of care.

The Committee on Quality of Health Care in America laid out a vision for how the health care system and related policy environment must be radically transformed in order to close the chasm between what we know to be good quality care and what actually exists in practice. The reports released stress that reform around the margins is inadequate to address system ills.

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The committee will conduct a 2-year study that will incorporate the following tasks. These will be completed in two phases, with the first component started and completed in the first phase, and result in the issuance of an interim report. The remaining components will be undertaken in the first phase and completed in the second phase.

  • Review and synthesis of findings in the literature pertaining to the quality of care provided in the health care system;
  • Development of a communications strategy for raising the awareness of the general public and key stakeholders of quality of care concerns and opportunities for improvement;
  • Articulation of a framework through which to foster accountability for quality and identification of strategies for encouraging development of such a framework;
  • Identification of key characteristics and factors that enable or encourage providers, health care organizations, health plans and communities to continuously improve the quality of care; and
  • Development of a research agenda in areas of continued uncertainty.

Collaborators

Staff

Clyde Behney

Lead

CBehney@nas.edu

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