TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - ULTRASOUND IN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE: IMPROVING PATIENT CARE AND REDUCING COST A1 - Coleman, Nana E. A1 - Slonim, Anthony D. A2 - Levitov, Alexander B. A2 - Mayo, Paul H. A2 - Slonim, Anthony D. PY - 2015 T2 - Critical Care Ultrasonography, 2e AB - More than a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine challenged medical care providers and systems to improve healthcare delivery across six essential areas: safety, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, equity, and patient-centeredness (Figure 1-1) in Crossing the Quality Chiasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Antecedent to the establishment of these goals, the same body recognized in To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System that up to 100,000 patients in hospitals die needlessly each year from avoidable medical errors. Despite the extensive resources devoted by national and local governments, health systems, and individuals to improvements in patient safety and error reduction, disappointingly, studies demonstrate that since these seminal publications, we have not achieved enough. Medical errors continue to occur at an alarming rate; and as the definition of unacceptable hospital-based events broadens to include morbidities, such as hospital-acquired infections, pressure ulcers, and preventable delays in care, the disparity between the goals and reality of US health care is only more apparent. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1106128152 ER -