Quality of Care Assessing Needs Thesis

114). Rising medical costs and diminishing quality of care demand that something be done, however (IOM 2009).

The Quality Chasm documents and the research that went into producing them have been specifically requested and utilized by the Department on Health and Human Services to implement policy reform at state and local levels that his directly changed the way primary care is provided (IOM).Nursing education is also affected by these policy changes as expectations and standards of care change.

References

IOM. (2009). "Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative." Accessed 18 September 2009. http://www.iom.edu/CMS/8089.aspx

Piper, S. (2008). Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and Crisis. Pacific Research Institute. Accessed 18 September 2009. http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20081020_Top_Ten_Myths.pdf.....