Quality in Children’s Health Care
During the last decade, states have taken a greater role in monitoring health care quality. Although advances in medicine, health care and information gathering have substantially improved the health of America’s children, critical gaps in the quality of care received remain. With the wealth of health care quality information now available to states, policymakers need to determine what information is meaningful, how to collect it accurately, and how to apply it to improve the quality of health care programs. This paper focuses attention on quality improvement in Medicaid and SCHIP programs, offers a primer on why child quality measures are important, and suggests how this data can be used.
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