Better Measures of Quality Are Needed for Care of Pediatric Asthma

Adherence to the recently established Children's Asthma Care performance measures is not associated with rates of emergency room use or readmission.

National hospital healthcare quality measures have not addressed common conditions in children until recently, when the Joint Commission established the Children's Asthma Care (CAC) performance measures, which evaluate whether children aged 2 to 17 years hospitalized with asthma receive bronchodilators during hospitalization (CAC-1), systemic corticosteroids during hospitalization (CAC-2), and a complete written home management plan of care at discharge (CAC-3). Using administrative data for 37,267 children with asthma who were admitted to 30 children's hospitals from January 2008 to September 2010, researchers evaluated trends in adherence to CAC measures and associations between compliance and emergency department visit rates and readmiss…

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F. Bruder Stapleton, MD

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Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesAmerican Society of Pediatric Nephrology Foundation (Chair)

F. Bruder Stapleton, MD

Disclosures

Consultant/Advisory BoardCareer Physician

Editorial BoardsUpToDate

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesAmerican Society of Pediatric Nephrology Foundation (Chair)

Better Measures of Quality Are Needed for Care of Pediatric Asthma

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