Reviews for Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century

The average rating for Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-16 00:00:00 Debra Waldron This was the second book by IOM regarding Quality in health care. It is very detailed reading like the first book, but goes into what is needed in order to improve quality outcomes. The book is outdated to some extent because of the rapid advancement in IT. However, it is probably a required read for those in the health care quality arena. For those familiar with quality issues, STEEP is born here, safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient centered care. This acronym is now used regularly at health care conferences, but was reordered from the ideas in this book. The upshot in 2001 was that the quality of health care needs big improvement. I took notes once again, had my dictionary by my side and can now return to more recent works on Quality which deal with the mandates of the health care law, new developments in IT, electronic medical records.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-18 00:00:00 Moya TysonJames A stellar beginning to the fall of healthcare as we know it! Something must be done to curb the outrageous imbalance between consumer (patients and provdiers!) and payors! ObamaCare is at least a start.