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Research To Address Quality Shortcomings

PROLOGUE: Despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, some recent reports have indicated that quality of care in U.S. hospitals is improving. This surely is good news. But how exactly is quality of care measured? The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) To Err Is Human, released in 1999, and Crossing the Quality Chasm, in 2001, focused national attention on preventable medical errors and highlighted patient safety as an important goal for our health care system. In response to the first IOM report, Congress charged the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with reducing errors in medicine by (1) identifying . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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