* Abbreviation: EHR a?? : electronic health record In this issue of Pediatrics , the article by House et al1 provides a summary of pediatric quality measures currently available in national databases as well as an assessment of how comprehensively these measures represent common pediatric issues. The authors found a preponderance of process measures that have not been outcome-validated. They also found a dearth of measures for some of the most common and/or costly conditions, and relatively few health outcome measures. These findings are not unexpected and are unlikely to change without a paradigm shift in how quality measures are developed and implemented in health care systems across the United States. The first step in quality measure development is to review the evidence and/or clinical practice guidelines related to the topic under consideration.2 Guidelines represent a??state-of-the-arta?? thinking about how conditions should be diagnosed, treated, and, for chronic conditions, managed over time. Thus, when they exist for a given condition, clinical practice guidelines are usually the main source used to develop quality measures. When guideline recommendations are based on low-quality a?| Address correspondence to Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, Seattle Childrena??s Research Institute, Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, 2001 Eighth Avenue, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98121. E-mail: rita.mangione-smith{at}seattlechildrens.org
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机译:*缩写:EHR a ?? :电子健康记录在本期《儿科学》中,House等人的文章1总结了国家数据库中当前可用的儿科质量度量,并评估了这些度量如何全面代表常见的儿科问题。作者发现大量尚未经过结果验证的过程度量。他们还发现缺乏一些最常见和/或代价高昂的疾病的措施,而健康结果的措施相对较少。这些发现并非意外,如果不改变美国卫生保健系统中如何制定和实施质量措施的范式,就不可能改变。制定质量度量标准的第一步是审查与正在考虑的主题相关的证据和/或临床实践指南。2指南代表了“最新技术”。考虑如何诊断,治疗疾病,以及对于慢性疾病,应随时间推移进行管理。因此,当针对特定条件存在它们时,临床实践指南通常是用于制定质量度量的主要来源。准则建议何时基于低质量a?地址为西雅图儿童基金会研究所儿童健康,行为与发展中心Rita Mangione-Smith博士,华盛顿州98121,西雅图第八儿童健康与行为研究中心,2001年,第八大街,套房400。 smith {at} seattlechildrens.org
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