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Binding: HardcoverDewey 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 19, 2001 Publisher: National Academies Press Studio: National Academies Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: (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. Book Description: 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 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:
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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This book will not get you thereThis 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 is available ... Read More Rating:  - Essential Reading for Everyone in Health CareIf 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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