title: Quality improvement in health care: the year behind, the year ahead.
abstract: In this special annual feature, Editorial Advisory Board members of The Joint Commission Journal comment on significant developments, issues, and trends in health care quality and quality improvement. With health reform in suspended animation, the field of health care quality marches on. Yet the critical questions and challenges loom larger than ever.
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States