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December 14, 2005
Journal of the American
Medical Association
The Long Road to
Patient Safety: 
A Status Report on
Patient Safety Systems.

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December 1, 2005
Office of News and
Public Information

National System
Needed to Measure
and Report on Health
Care Performance;
New Board Should
Be Created to Guide Development.
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August 21, 2005
NY TIMES

It's the Simple
Things But Hospitals
Don't Do Them.
 
 
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
Board on Health Care Services
Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs
 

Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. (chair)
Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care
University of California, San Francisco

Bobbie Berkowitz, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Alumni Endowed Professor of Nursing, and Psychosocial and Community Health
University of Washington, Seattle

Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.

Bruce E. Bradley, M.B.A.
Director, Health Plan Strategy and Public Policy
Health Care Initiatives
General Motors Corp., Pontiac, Mich.

Janet M. Corrigan, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Committee for Quality Health Care, Washington, D.C.

Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President
Commonwealth Fund, New York City

Nancy-Ann Min Deparle, J.D.
Senior Adviser
J.P. Morgan Partners LLC, Washington, D.C.

Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine and Community Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.

Richard G. Frank, Ph.D.
Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics
Harvard Medical School, Boston

Robert S. Galvin, M.D.
Director
Corporate Health and Medical Programs
General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn.

David H. Gustafson, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Industrial Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Pharm.D.
Professor and Dean
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco

Alan R. Nelson, M.D.
Special Adviser to the Executive Vice President
American College of Physicians, Fairfax, Va.

Norman C. Payson, M.D.
President
NCP Inc., Concord, N.H.

William A. Peck, M.D.
Director
Center for Health Policy
Washington University School of Medicine,

St. Louis
Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore

Christopher Queram, M.H.A.
Chief Executive Officer
Employer Health Care Alliance Cooperative, Madison, Wisc.

Robert D. Reischauer, Ph.D.
President
Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

William C. Richardson, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich.

Cheryl M. Scott, M.H.A.
President Emerita
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D.
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of
Health Policy and Management, and Dean School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Project HOPE, Bethesda, Md.

NSTITUTE STAFF
Rosemary Chalk
Study Director
Karen Adams, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer


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