Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance, V: Quality of Care in a Changing Health Care Environment

This article provides a retrospective wrap-up of an Institute of Medicine study to develop a strategy for quality review and assurance in Medicare and reflects on selected developments in the period since the IOM report first appeared.

Abstract

This article, the fifth and final in a series, provides a retrospective wrap-up of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) study to develop a strategy for quality review and assurance in Medicare. Portions of that report were adapted for four articles in QRB in January, March, August, and October 1991. This final article reflects on selected developments in the period since the IOM report first appeared, particularly those involving other IOM activities, in the context of certain of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the IOM study committee on Medicare quality assurance.