You Can't Leap a Chasm in Two Jumps: The Institute of Medicine Health Care Quality Report
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: With language that could easily have been lifted from a radical manifesto for national health reform,2 the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America has issued a scathing indictment of the US health care system. According to the IOM Committee, the magnitude of the disparity between “the health care we have [and] the care we could have . . . is a not just a gap, but a chasm”1 (p.1). Hence the provocative title of the Committee’s second and final report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. This new publication, released a year after the Committee’s influential first report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,3 aims, like its predecessor, to have a major impact on public opinion and health policy. While much of the publicity generated by To Err is Human centered around its spotlighting of a decade-old finding that medical errors caused as many as 98,000 deaths each You Can’t Leap a Chasm in Two Jumps: The Institute of Medicine Health Care Quality Report
Source: Public Health Reports
Authors: Gordon D Schiff, Quentin D Young
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1967384147