title: Allied health services: avoiding crisis. Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
abstract: The National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) recently completed an eighteen-month, congressionally mandated study of the role of allied health personnel in the nation's health care system. In this landmark study, NAS/IOM signals the growing importance of the allied health professions. Underscoring that the allied health professions have come of age, the report represents the first study of allied health by a major branch of the NAS. Thus, the study in itself is a major event, one which sets precedent. The Executive Summary of the report is reprinted for readers of JAH by permission of NAS/IOM.
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D004651:Employment / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States