title: 'The rest of the iceberg': IOM looks at quality.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Healthcare in America released a sweeping 300-page report March 1 that claims fundamental changes are needed in the American health care system if 'the quality gap' that currently exists is to be eliminated. In his introductory remarks, committee chair William Richardson said the IOM's previous report on medical errors, the controversial To Err Is Human, represented 'the tip of the iceberg. Other defects beyond safety are even more widespread'.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards; D011050:Policy Making; D017751:Safety Management; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States