An Equity Agenda for the Field of Health Care Quality Improvement.

@article{OKane2021AnEA,
  title={An Equity Agenda for the Field of Health Care Quality Improvement.},
  author={Margaret E. O’Kane and Shantanu Agrawal and Leah F Binder and Victor J. Dzau and Tejal K. Gandhi and Rachel Harrington and Kedar S. Mate and Paul McGann and David S. Meyers and Paul Rosen and Michelle Schreiber and Dan Schummers},
  journal={NAM perspectives},
  year={2021},
  volume={2021}
}
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (IOM, 2001), the National Academy of Medicine convened the leaders of seven prominent U.S. health care quality organizations to discuss and author a paper identifying the most important priorities for the health care quality movement in the next 20 years. The authors identified equity as the area of… 
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