title: Progress in community pediatric research.
abstract: This review examines three major facets of progress in community pediatric research. The number of publications with this orientation has increased substantially over a 10-year period, and abstracts submitted to the Ambulatory Pediatric Association meetings have doubled. New methodologies are identified and their application to ambulatory pediatric care is described. In particular, procedures and approaches are examined in the context of recognized criteria for sociomedical research.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003154:Community Medicine; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010372:Pediatrics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012961:Sociology