IOM - Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions

Quality Chasm Series


This new report Institute of Medicine (IOM)examines the difference between overall health care and health care for mental and substance-use conditions and finds that the framework set forth in the 2001 report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, can be applied to health care for mental and substance-use conditions.

The report then describes a multifaceted and comprehensive strategy to do so.
www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=30836