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Standards for Systematic Reviews
Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best s...
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health ca...
A Bridge to Quality
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health pro...
Letter Report
Commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System provides guidance on the most sign...
Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses
Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines ...
Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safe...
Building Safer Systems for Better Care
IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to actio...
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines ...
Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health
Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the Wo...
Target Decision Making, Not Geography
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national g...
A Roadmap for the Nation
There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services....
How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Is quality improving? Or is it suffering? While the average person on the street can foll...
Improving Health Care Worldwide
In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explic...
Expert Views: Workshop Summary
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop "The Conduct of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation Research" was held on May 24-25, 2007, in ...
Learning from System Demonstrations
In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify...
Maximizing Potential
Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program is the second book in the new Pathways to Quality Health Care series. Focusing on performance impr...
Workshop Report
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provisio...
Proceedings of a Workshop
A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Researchers...
Transforming Health Care Quality
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...
At the Breaking Point
Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily am...
Balancing Coverage and Cost
In 2010, an estimated 50 million people were uninsured in the United States. A portion of the uninsured reflects unemployment rates; however, this rat...
Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they cal...
Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs
Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems ...
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, pat...
Considerations for the Design of a Systematic Review of Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and Their Caregivers: Letter Report provides ...
Challenges and Opportunities: Workshop Summary
The Institute of Medicine's Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation held a workshop on January 16, 2007, in Washing...
In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of he...
Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health ...
Preliminary Committee Observations
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observa...
Challenges and a Way Forward: Proceedings of a Workshop
On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Sharing ...
Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibiliti...
Workshop Summary
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, th...
Millions of peopleรขโฌ"infants, children, adults, and their familiesรขโฌ"are currently coping with serious illness in the United States. Efforts are...
The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the...
Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illn...
The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic cond...
The oncology careforce faces challenges as population growth in the U.S. contributes to increases in the number of patients diagnosed with cancer. Sig...
As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in...
Conference Summary
A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge ef...