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A Daunting Challenge: The Quest For Quality

Politicians and pundits often assert that Americans enjoy medical care of unparalleled quality as a consequence of U.S. support of the world’s largest biomedical research enterprise, ready access (if they have insurance) to medical specialists, and, now, an improving capacity to actually measure quality. This positive picture is true in many instances, but there is also much evidence that Americans sometimes receive care that neglects, if not ignores, the best scientific knowledge. The most disturbing recent reports were issued by the Institute of Medicine. The first of these reports, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, raised . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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