Roundtable: Health Care Coverage
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The urgent need to improve health care quality. Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality.
OBJECTIVE To identify issues related to the quality of health care in the United States, including its measurement, assessment, and improvement, requiring action by health care professionals or other constituencies in the public or private sectors. PARTICIPANTS The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality, convened by the Institute of Medicine, a component of the National Academy of Science...
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