This new comprehensive resource Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice
addresses the needs of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals …

Introduction to Health Care Quality explores the issues of quality management in today's
health care environment, and provides clear guidance on new and perennial challenges in …

As the public in the US has grown increasingly concerned over the gaps in the health care
system's attention to quality, and as the health care industry itself struggles for stability in a …

Abstract The Institute of Medicine has been instrumental in providing guidance for identifying
the contributors to the quality issues within the health care system. Their report, entitled …

Finally, reform of the US health care system has reached political center stage, accompa?
nied by the twin mantras of" cost contain? ment" and" access for all." A jittery subtext …

Attempts to improve patient care, its increasing cost and the aggressive malpractice
environment have highlighted the need for standards of professional accountability …

These three reports made a tremendous statement and called for action on the state of
healthcare, its gaps, and the opportunity to improve its quality in the United States to …

The Third Edition of this book was published in April 2014. To request an exam copy of the
Third Edition, please click here. If you need a desk copy of the Second Edition, please …

This article reviews recent work on healthcare quality, highlights findings and
recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (iom) reports on medical errors and quality …

This book contains chapters and commentaries by members of the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) committee and by outstanding practitioners, researchers, legislators, and …