title: Quality and safety in health care, part V: introduction to crossing the quality chasm.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century focused on quality issues generally in health care, not only on mistakes. It made numerous recommendations for improving health care, including 6 aims and 10 rules to guide policy makers. This was intended to help redesign health care. However, the authors of the report did not attempt to provide all the answers because they realized that innovation was important and that they could not foresee all the sociopolitical forces and technological and research breakthroughs in the future.
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D058028:Research Report; D014481:United States