Quality of Care

MEPS Statistical Brief, No. 3:
Children's Health Care Quality, Fall 2000

Conferences & Workshops

Improving Children's Health Through Health Services Research
Conference, June 26, 1999

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Research Findings

Child Health Research Findings: Identifying Quality Problems and Improving Care

Research Activities, March 2012:
Despite recommendations against it, early discharge of late-preterm newborns remains common
Research Activities, February 2012:
Recommendations on rounding pediatric doses may improve e-prescribing while reducing risk of adverse drug events
Research Activities, January 2012:
Measuring quality of care for middle ear infection has many pitfalls
Research Activities, November 2011:
Parents are satisfied with telemedicine care for their child’s obesity
Research Activities, October 2011:
Certain factors increase risk of medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
Research Activities, September 2011:
Low- and middle-income children with public and private insurance have similar rates of unmet health care needs
The quality of children's asthma care is affected by emergency department crowding
Research Activities, July 2011:
Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
Research Activities, May 2011:
Surgery and imaging rates for children's kidney stones are stable, but vary greatly from hospital to hospital
Research Activities, April 2011:
Electronic health record decision support improves the care of children with ADHD
Adverse drug event surveillance tailored to hospitalized children
Research Activities, March 2011:
Children with a medical home more likely to receive health screenings and advice
Research Activities, February 2011:
Pilot study finds a low level of medication errors for look-alike, sound-alike drugs prescribed for children
Ketorolac, a pain medication, is underused in children operated on for bladder reflux

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Research Activities, August 2010:
Care setting affects likelihood that children with persistent asthma will receive inhaled steroids
Research Activities, May 2010:
Adverse events occurring during pediatric sedation are recorded in charts but not always reported
Research Activities, April 2010:
The stability of a usual source of care is important to the care of low-income children
Certain factors can help prepare families to bring infants home from neonatal intensive care units
Research Activities, March 2010:
Poverty, race, and gender are all factors in the epidemic of severely obese children
Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood
Research Activities, February 2010:
Only one-third of adolescents are screened for emotional health during routine physicals

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Research Activities, November 2009:
Children are commonly harmed by adverse events in intensive care units
Infants are at the highest risk for errors involving cardiovascular drugs
Intervention leads to reduction in central venous catheter-associated blood stream infections for pediatric patients
Research Activities, August 2009:
Study finds high medication error rates among adults and children receiving outpatient cancer treatment
Research Activities, July 2009:
Quality and accessible primary care is linked to fewer emergency department visits by Medicaid-insured children
Research Activities, April 2009:
Care quality disparities exist for children seen in urban versus rural hospitals
Research Activities, March 2009:
Some pediatricians would disclose errors only if harm is evident
Research Activities, January 2009:
Rates of adverse medical events and motor vehicle incidents are unchanged among U.S. resident pediatric physicians despite duty hour limit standards

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