Quality of care for 2 common pediatric conditions treated by convenient care providers.
Rates of adherence to 2 quality measures, modeled after Heathcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, were evaluated in a pediatric population in a convenient care (retail medicine) clinic setting. The measures were appropriate testing for children with pharyngitis and appropriate treatment for children with upper-respiratory infection (URI). The convenient care clinic (CCC) achieved a ranking above the HEDIS 90th percentile for the pharyngitis measure and approximately midway between the 50th and 90th percentiles for the URI measure for the 2007 reporting period. This represents the third major study reporting quality of care for pharyngitis in a CCC setting and the first study for URIs. Other aspects of quality--namely access, follow-up, and equity--are also reported on for the population in question.
Jacoby
Richard
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Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. richard.jacoby@jefferson.edu
Crawford
Albert G
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Chaudhari
Paresh
P
Goldfarb
Neil I
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D003132:Commerce; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000628:therapy*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States