Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2001-07-18
Publisher: National Academies Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0309072808
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Crossing the Quality Chasm pdf
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This is the 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: a set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system; a set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships; a suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality; and key steps to promote evi Download Crossing the Quality Chasm for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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