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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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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
Consensus Study Report
·2001
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today'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 ca...
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