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Priority Areas for National Action:

Transforming Health Care Quality

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Size: 160 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2003

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Authors:
Karen Adams and Janet M. Corrigan, Editors, Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement
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"...a groundbreaking publication that should receive much study... The reader will find that the committee has thoughtfully articulated an evidence-based case for each priority area. ...an enlightened and balanced report. ... [The IOM] has brought some intelligent rays of hope ...
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Table of Contents
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-14	(skim)
1 Introduction	15-28	(skim)
2 Criteria for Selection	29-40	(skim)
3 Priority Areas for Quality Improvement	41-114	(skim)
4 Process for Identifying Priority Areas	115-126	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members	127-134	(skim)
Appendix B: Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement Workshop	135-138	(skim)
Appendix C: Priority Setting Models	139-144	(skim)

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A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. The priority areas selected represent the entire spectrum of health care from preventive care to end of life care. They also touch on all age groups, health care settings and health care providers. Collective action in these areas could help transform the entire health care system. In addition, the report identifies criteria and delineates a process that DHHS may adopt to determine future priority areas.

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"...a groundbreaking publication that should receive much study... The reader will find that the committee has thoughtfully articulated an evidence-based case for each priority area. ...an enlightened and balanced report. ... [The IOM] has brought some intelligent rays of hope to a national health care system that remains lugubriously overcast."
-- American Journal of Medical Quality, July/August 2003

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The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative