Child & Adolescent Health & Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters
April 15, 2011 The Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures recommended that the federal government standardize data reporting requirements and use a life-course approach to measuring child and adolescent health and the quality of health care services. The committee was formed by the Institute on Medicine and the National Research Council; Congress directed the two groups to evaluate the state of efforts to measure child and adolescent health and measure the quality of services. The goal is to better address the needs of younger populations, including capturing their patterns of illness and causes of death as . . .
