Academic pediatrics
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Academic pediatrics · May 2011
Medicaid and CHIP children's healthcare quality measures: what states use and what they want.
The objective of this research was to explore state Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) use of children's healthcare quality measures and the need for additional support as the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) legislation is being implemented. ⋯ The surveys' findings of high levels of state children's health care quality measurement and improvement activity and interest suggest that new federal CHIPRA provisions are coming at an opportune time. To achieve significant state participation in measuring and reporting on children's access to quality care, national programs need to be guided not only by national priorities but by state goals, capacity, and practice.