title: National quality measures for child mental health care: background, progress, and next steps.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review recent health policies related to measuring child health care quality, the selection processes of national child health quality measures, the nationally recommended quality measures for child mental health care and their evidence strength, the progress made toward developing new measures, and early lessons learned from these national efforts.
  
  
  METHODS
  Methods used included description of the selection process of child health care quality measures from 2 independent national initiatives, the recommended quality measures for child mental health care, and the strength of scientific evidence supporting them.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the child health quality measures recommended or endorsed during these national initiatives, only 9 unique measures were related to child mental health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The development of new child mental health quality measures poses methodologic challenges that will require a paradigm shift to align research with its accelerated pace.
authors: UCLA Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. bzima@mednet.ucla.edu
authors: Bonnie T
authors: BT
authors: Zima
authors: J Michael
authors: JM
authors: Murphy
authors: Sarah Hudson
authors: SH
authors: Scholle
authors: Kimberly Eaton
authors: KE
authors: Hoagwood
authors: Ramesh C
authors: RC
authors: Sachdeva
authors: Rita
authors: R
authors: Mangione-Smith
authors: Donna
authors: D
authors: Woods
authors: Hayley S
authors: HS
authors: Kamin
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Jellinek
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States