Abstract
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Health Care Quality Initiative has addressed numerous aspects of health care quality; in 2001, it released a landmark report called Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (Citation). The report proposed a framework for assessing and improving the quality of health care, and defined six aims for high-quality health care (safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency and equitableness). In 2006, the IOM released another report in the Quality Chasm series: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions (IOM, 2006). This Policy Watch column provides an overview of the Health Care Quality Initiative's recommendations for integrated screening as one of several strategies for resolving quality problems for mental and substance-use health care.