BCYF Project: Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures

The Board on Children, Youth, and Families will form an ad hoc study committee to provide guidance to Congress on the extent and quality of efforts to measure child health status and the quality of health care for children across the age span and in relation to preventive care, treatments for acute conditions, and treatments aimed at ameliorating or correcting physical, mental, and developmental conditions in children. In conducting such study and preparing such report, the committee will:

• consider all of the major national population-based reporting systems sponsored by the Federal Government that are currently in place, including reporting requirements under Federal grant programs and national population surveys and estimates conducted directly by the Federal Government;

• identify the information regarding child health and health care quality that each system is designed to capture and generate, the study and reporting periods covered by each system, and the extent to which the information so generated is made widely available through publication;

• identify gaps in knowledge related to children’s health status, health disparities among subgroups of children, the effects of social conditions on children’s health status and use and effectiveness of health care, and the relationship between child health status and family income, family stability and preservation, and children’s school readiness and educational achievement and attainment; and

• make recommendations regarding improving/strengthening the timeliness, quality, and public transparency and accessibility of information about child health and health care quality.

Sponsors: DHHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Staff Contacts

Rosemary Chalk, Study Director, 202-334-1230; rchalk@nas.edu
Patti Simon, Program Officer, 202-334-3901; psimon@nas.edu
Pamella Atayi, Senior Program Assistant, 202-334-1996; patayi@nas.edu