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The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Measures Initiatives: Moving Forward to Improve Measurement, Care, and Child and Adolescent Outcomes
Academic PediatricsVol. 11Issue 3SupplementS1–S10Published in issue: May, 2011- Denise Dougherty
- Jeffrey Schiff
- Rita Mangione-Smith
Cited in Scopus: 51In 2009, a publicly transparent evidence-informed process responded to the requirement of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) legislation to identify an initial core set of recommended children’s health care quality measures for voluntary use by Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which together cover almost 40 million of America’s children and adolescents. Future efforts under CHIPRA will be used to improve and strengthen the initial core set, develop new measures as needed, and post improved core measure sets annually beginning in January 2013.
