title: Advancing children's health care and outcomes through the pediatric quality measures program.
abstract: In 2009 Congress passed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), which presented an unprecedented opportunity to measure and improve health care quality and outcomes for children. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has worked to fulfill a number of quality measurement provisions under CHIPRA, including establishing the Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP). The PQMP was charged with establishing a publicly available portfolio of new and enhanced evidence-based pediatric quality measures for use by Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program and other public and private programs and to also provide opportunities to improve and strengthen the Child Core Set of quality measures. This article focuses on the PQMP and provides an overview of the program's goals and related activities, lessons learned, and future opportunities.
authors.affiliation: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Pediatric Quality Measures Program, Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Electronic address: Kamila.Mistry@ahrq.hhs.gov.
authors.forename: Kamila B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Mistry
authors.affiliation: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Pediatric Quality Measures Program, Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chesley
authors.affiliation: Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Md.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: LLanos
authors.affiliation: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Pediatric Quality Measures Program, Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dougherty
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States
keywords: children; quality