Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions examines the distinctive characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues.

This new volume in the Quality Chasm series puts forth an agenda for improving the quality of this care based on this analysis. Patients and their families, primary health care providers, specialty mental health and substance-use treatment providers, health care organizations, health plans, purchasers of group health care, and all involved in health care for mental and substance use conditions will benefit from this guide to achieving better care.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11470.html

Publication Year: 2005

Publisher

Institute of Medicine
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Washington, dc 20001
Phone: 202-334-2352
Website: http://www.iom.edu/
Email: iomwww@nas.edu