We articulate an intellectual history and a definition, description and model of patient safety.
We define patient safety as a discipline in the health care professions that applies safety …

Functional status measurement and the assessment of health status are reaching their
maturity as technical disciplines. Good tools exist that meet requirements such as brevity …

PD (Parkinson's disease) is a devastating progressive motor disorder with no available cure.
Over the last two decades, an increasing number of genetic defects have been found that …

Improving the US health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving
the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of …

The need is urgent to bring US health care costs into a sustainable range for both public and
private payers. Commonly, programs to contain costs use cuts, such as reductions in …

In modern American health care, there are two approaches to the problem of improsing
quality, two theories of quality that describe the climate in which care is delivered. One will …

Health care is rich in evidence-based innovations, yet even when such innovations are
implemented successfully in one location, they often disseminate slowly—if at all. Diffusion …

We compared the screening accuracy of a short, five-item version of the Mental Health
Inventory (MHI-5) with that of the 18-item MHI, the 30-item version of the General Health …

Five years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for a national effort to make health care
safe. Although progress since then has been slow, the IOM report truly “changed the …

AHALF DECADE HAS ELAPSED SINCE THE INSTITUTE OF Medicine released 2 landmark
reports on health care safety and quality, To Err Is Human1 and Crossing the Quality Chasm …