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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...
A History of the Institute of Medicine
Since its founding in 1970, the Institute of Medicine has become an internationally recognized source of independent advice and expertise on a broad s...
2007 IOM Annual Meeting Summary
Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health...
Health in the 21st Century
This book contains the proceedings of the Institute of Medicine's 25th Anniversary Symposium. Its chapters comprise presentations by eminent 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...
Collaborations of physicians and researchers with industry can provide valuable benefits to society, particularly in the translation of basic scientif...
Research and Development of Medical Products: Workshop Summary
Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies. Th...
Assessing the Science Base
The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be conside...
A New Health System for the 21st Century
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more ...
Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide variety...
Universities and Industry
Evidence suggests that medical innovation is becoming increasingly dependent on interdisciplinary research and on the crossing of institutional bounda...
Workshop Summary
Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival. Shaping and shaped by their host environments, thes...
An Essential Technology for Health Care, Revised Edition
Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to compute...
Radioactive isotopes and enriched stable isotopes are used widely in medicine, agriculture, industry, and science, where their application allows us t...
America's Health in a New Era
Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey. Primary Care f...
The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality was established in 1995 by the Institute of Medicine. The Roundtable consists of experts formally appoi...
A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing coun...
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...
The Foundation for Continuous Improvement in Health and Health Care: Workshop Series Summary
Like many other industries, health care is increasingly turning to digital information and the use of electronic resources. The Institute of Medicine'...
Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School
Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cance...
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines ...
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 ...
Directions for a New Program
The Alberta clinical practice guidelines program is supporting appropriate, effective and quality medical care in Alberta through promotion, developme...
Improving Care at the End of Life
When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying p...
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...
A Prescription to End Confusion
To maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to t...
The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an...
The Essential Guide to Nutrient Requirements
Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended D...
The brain ... There is no other part of the human anatomy that is so intriguing. How does it develop and function and why does it sometimes, tragicall...
Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American pop...
Preparing for the Next Disease Outbreak: Workshop Summary
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epid...
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...
Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public
In the wake of publicity and congressional attention to drug safety issues, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the Institute of Medicine...
Summary and Recommendations
It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an ...
Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary
The number of new drug approvals has remained reasonably steady for the past 50 years at around 20 to 30 per year, while at the same time the total sp...
It is a commonly held belief that athletes, particularly body builders, have greater requirements for dietary protein than sedentary individuals. Howe...
Does Sex Matter?
It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover la...
Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise
Even though slightly over half of the U.S. population is female, medical research historically has neglected the health needs of women. However, over ...
A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care
Telemedicine--the use of information and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants--...
Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance
For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, th...