Crossing the Quality Chasm: 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 research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America.



Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and p...