Quality Assessment

· Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

· From your perspective as a health care professional and/or consumer, summarize two or three of the most important messages of the IOM reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm.

· Analyze at least two of the changes proposed in these reports, and explain how they are expected to contribute toward the desired improvements.

· Briefly assess some of the challenges related to these changes. (Select at least one challenge for each change you have chosen to focus.

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