title: Peds benchmarking group gathers outcomes data.
abstract: Company literature refers to it as a national child health outcomes conference, but staff refer to it as the Halloween Meeting. A group of physicians, pediatric hospital chief executives, and representatives from payers and national quality organizations came together on Oct. 31, 1997, to ask questions and brainstorm about how to develop a mechanism for measuring pediatric outcomes.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care