TY - JOUR
T1 - A Primer on Understanding Pediatric Health Care Quality Measurement
AU - Heuer, Beth
AU - Rankin, Audra
AU - Reyes, Imelda
AU - Dihigo, Sharolyn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Advanced practice registered nurses implement evidence-based care guidelines and assess the quality of care delivered to pediatric and adolescent populations to ensure that the highest standards of care are provided to the patients and their families. Standardized health care quality measures allow for assessment of clinical competence, monitoring of equitable health care distribution, improvement of provider/institutional accountability, development of standards for accreditation and certification, informing of quality improvement efforts, and creation of criteria for provider incentive payments. The purpose of this article is to explain why health care quality measures are established, what agencies oversee the development of meaningful pediatric quality measures, and how these measures inform and improve the care provided by pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses.
AB - Advanced practice registered nurses implement evidence-based care guidelines and assess the quality of care delivered to pediatric and adolescent populations to ensure that the highest standards of care are provided to the patients and their families. Standardized health care quality measures allow for assessment of clinical competence, monitoring of equitable health care distribution, improvement of provider/institutional accountability, development of standards for accreditation and certification, informing of quality improvement efforts, and creation of criteria for provider incentive payments. The purpose of this article is to explain why health care quality measures are established, what agencies oversee the development of meaningful pediatric quality measures, and how these measures inform and improve the care provided by pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses.
KW - Health insurance reimbursement
KW - pediatrics
KW - quality of health care
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pedhc.2019.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.pedhc.2019.02.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 30878264
AN - SCOPUS:85062805606
SN - 0891-5245
VL - 33
SP - 589
EP - 594
JO - Journal of Pediatric Health Care
JF - Journal of Pediatric Health Care
IS - 5
ER -