Journey toward meaningful pediatric quality metric reporting: the Texas experience.
Working under a mandate for public reporting, children's hospitals in Texas joined in a partnership with the state with the intent of working toward providing meaningful assessment of the quality of pediatric inpatient care. This article summarizes a journey of nearly 2 years undertaken to review currently available quality measures and arrive at interagency consensus for the reporting of pediatric quality and clinical outcomes in Texas. Public reporting has been approached with great divergence across the states. The Texas project underlines the need for all interested parties to collaborate for best results.
Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Fiona.levy@childrens.com
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Julia S
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