Health Care System Challenges
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Health Care System Challenges
Quality
- Relative to other nations, U.S. performs below par in such measures as rates of infant mortality, life expectancy, and premature and preventable deaths.
- Quality is uneven across the nation with a large share of patients not receiving clinically proven effective treatments.
- Uniform standards, or best practices developed from evidence-based medicine, remains an unrealized goal.
- Adequate clinical information and widespread use of information technology are lacking, contributing to medical errors and other quality problems.
