Crossing the Quality Chasm

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
AuthorCommittee on Quality of Health Care in America and Institute of Medicine
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherNational Academies Press
Publication date
July 19, 2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages360 pp.
ISBN978-0-309-07280-9
OCLC46457195
362.1/0973 21
LC ClassRA395.A3 I5557 2001

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century is a report on health care quality in the United States published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 1, 2001. A follow-up to the frequently cited 1999 IOM patient safety report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Crossing the Quality Chasm advocates for a fundamental redesign of the U.S. health care system.[1]

  1. ^ Berwick, Donald (2002). "A User's Manual For The IOM's 'Quality Chasm' Report" (PDF). Health Affairs. 21 (3): 80–90. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.21.3.80. PMID 12026006. S2CID 29353545. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-19. Retrieved 2015-08-19.