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Addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care, not simply urgent and lifesaving care, but also safety net care for uninsured patients, public health surveillance, disaster preparation, and adjunct care in the face of increasing patient volume and limited resources.

Examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children and families and evaluates its progress. This book will be helpful for emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems.

Part of the "Quality Chasm Series", this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It provides an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. It examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and effectiveness of error prevention strategies.

Focusing on performance improvement, this book considers the history, role, and effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Organization (Q) program and its potential to promote quality improvement within a changing health care delivery environment that includes standardized performance measures and reporting requirements.

Provides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality-of-life impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations. This work is useful for public decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and students in the field.

Examines the characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues.

Aimed at improving health care quality, this book offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, this book offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. It also provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver various services to rural communities.

The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. This work is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002. It recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement.

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. This book investigates geographic variation in health care spending and quality for Medicare beneficiaries as well as other populations.

Presents a conceptual framework for improving the quality of cancer care. This study proposes improvements to six interconnected components of care: engaged patients; an adequately staffed, trained, and coordinated workforce; evidence-based care; learning health care information technology (IT); and more.

Building on the Institute of Medicine reports "To Err Is Human" and "Crossing the Quality Chasm", this work puts forward a road map for the development and adoption of key health care data standards to support both information exchange and the reporting and analysis of patient safety data.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop "The Conduct of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation Research" was held on May 24-25, 2007, in Irvine, CA. This book helps you understand of what is known and not known about quality improvement and implementation research.

In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their knowledge and resources with regard to strategies for improving patient care for five common chronic illnesses. This summit was a direct outgrowth and continuation of the recommendations put forth in the 2001 IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. The summit's purpose was to offer specific guidance at both the community and national levels for overcoming the challenges to the provision of high-quality care articulated in the Quality Chasm report and for moving closer to achievement of the patient-centerd health care system envisioned therein.