The IOM’s Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) outlines six aims for improving healthcare: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
Option A (Low costs): Low costs are not one of the six aims, though efficiency indirectly addresses cost by reducing waste.
Option B (Population-centered): Population-centered is not an IOM aim; patient-centered care focuses on individual needs, not populations.
Option C (Effective): This is the correct answer. NAHQ CPHQ study materials cite effective care—delivering evidence-based care that achieves desired outcomes—as one of the six IOM aims.
Option D (Coordinated): Coordinated care is a component of patient-centered or efficient care but is not explicitly listed as one of the six aims.
[Reference: NAHQ CPHQ Study Guide, Domain 4: Performance and Process Improvement, references the IOM’s six aims, including effective care, as a framework for quality improvement., , , , , ]
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