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Institute of Medicine names 20 areas crucial to better health care

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, January 27th, 2003

To give Americans world-class health care, the government and private organizations should focus on 20 areas that could have a broad impact on patients, families and communities, the Institute of Medicine reported January 7, 2002.

Efforts to improve health care should begin with the priority areas, the Institute, part of the National Academies, said in a study prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services.

The panel noted that several reports in recent years have called attention to problems with the healthcare system.

The priority areas, which were not ranked, are:

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Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2003-01-27)

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