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Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality : Measuring What Matters by Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes. Yet it is difficult to assess the general health status and health care quality for younger populations, especially those at risk of poor health outcomes, because the United States has no national information system that can provide timely, comprehensive, and reliable indicators in these areas for children and adolescents. Without such a system in place, it is difficult to know whether and how selected health care initiatives and programs contribute to children's health status. Child and adolescent health and health care quality identifies key advances in the development of pediatric health and health care quality measures, examines the capacity of existing federal data sets to support these measures, and considers related research activities focused on the development of new measures to address current gaps. This book posits the need for a comprehensive strategy to make better use of existing data, to integrate different data sources, and to develop new data sources and

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies
Publisher
National Academies Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780309225120
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, History, Social Science

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