Description |
xx, 337 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Quality chasm series |
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Quality chasm series.
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Contents |
1. A New Health System for the 21st Century -- The Quality Gap -- Underlying Reasons for Inadequate Quality of Care -- Agenda for the Future and Road Map for the Report -- 2. Improving the 21st-Century Health Care System -- Six Aims for Improvement -- A Vision of Future Care -- 3. Formulating New Rules to Redesign and Improve Care -- Health Care Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems -- Ten Simple Rules for the 21st-Century Health Care System -- 4. Taking the First Steps -- The Value of Organizing Around Priority Conditions -- Applications of Priority Conditions -- Criteria for Identifying Priority Conditions -- Providing the Resources Needed to Initiate Change -- 5. Building Organizational Supports for Change -- Stages of Organizational Development -- Key Challenges for the Redesign of Health Care Organizations -- Leadership for Managing Change -- 6. Applying Evidence to Health Care Delivery -- Background -- Synthesizing Clinical Evidence -- Using Computer-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Making Information Available on the Internet -- Defining Quality Measures -- 7. Using Information Technology -- Potential Benefits of Information Technology -- Automated Clinical Information -- Need for a National Health Information Infrastructure -- 8. Aligning Payment Policies with Quality Improvement -- Incentives of Current Payment Methods -- Barriers to Quality Improvement in Current Payment Methods -- Adapting Existing Payment Methods to Support Quality Improvement -- Need for a New Approach -- 9. Preparing the Workforce -- Clinical Education and Training -- Regulation of the Professions -- Legal Liability Issues -- Research Agenda for the Future Health Care Workforce. App. A. Report of the Technical Panel on the State of Quality to the Quality of Health Care in America Committee -- App. B. Redesigning Health Care with Insights from the Science of Complex Adaptive Systems |
Summary |
"This is the second and final report of the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America, which was appointed in 1998 to identify strategies for achieving a substantial improvement in the quality of health care delivered to Americans. The committee's first report, 'To err is human: building a safer health system', was released in 1999 and focused on a specific quality concern - patient safety. This second report focuses more broadly on how the health care delivery system can be designed to innovate and improve care"--p. ix |
Analysis |
United States |
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Health care |
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Reform |
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Quality control |
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Overseas item |
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Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi |
Notes |
Captured 22 May 2001 to 2 levels, using HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR/YP'2001] |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Also available on the World Wide web |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Public health administration -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States -- Quality control.
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Health Care Reform -- methods.
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Quality of Health Care.
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Quality of Health Care.
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Health Care Reform -- methods.
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Quality of Health Care.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Health Services Needs and Demand -- trends.
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SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
Author |
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Quality of Health Care in America.
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LC no. |
2001030775 |
ISBN |
0309072808 |
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