Quality Measures to Assess Care Transitions for Hospitalized Children
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Quality Measures to Assess Care Transitions for Hospitalized Children.
BACKGROUND Transitions between sites of care are inherent to all hospitalizations, yet we lack pediatric-specific transitions-of-care quality measures. We describe the development and validation of new transitions-of-care quality measures obtained from medical record data. METHODS After an evidence review, a multistakeholder panel prioritized quality measures by using the RAND/University of C...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0906