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The Institute of Medicine: Crossing the Quality Chasm

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The Institute of Medicine has been instrumental in providing guidance for identifying the contributors to the quality issues within the health care system. Their report, entitled “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A new health system for the twenty-first century” acknowledges that there exists a huge gap or chasm between the health care that we have and the potential health care that we could have. Through the efforts of the IOM, health care professionals, organizations, policy makers, and patients are becoming more familiar with the shortcomings of the nation’s current system and the importance of finding new and better approaches to meeting the health care needs of all Americans.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Blalock 610, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Kevin Tymitz MD (MIS Fellow)

  2. Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Blalock 656, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Anne Lidor MD, MPH (Assistant Professor) & Anne Lidor MD, MPH (Director)

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Tymitz, K., Lidor, A., Lidor, A. (2012). The Institute of Medicine: Crossing the Quality Chasm. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_37

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