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Theme Issue on Effectiveness of Office-Based Practice

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158:702.

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One of the 6 key elements of quality health care as defined by the Institute of Medicine in Crossing the Quality Chasm¹ is effectiveness of care. Health care, no matter how timely, family empowering, and efficient, cannot be high quality without first being effective. Yet, much of what pediatricians and others who care for children and adolescents do on a daily basis in the office has an unknown effect on the health of their patients.

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine will devote the May 2005 issue to studies on the effectiveness of office-based practice. We are interested in studies on all aspects of practice. Pediatricians, family physicians, and nurse practitioners spend a large portion of their day providing health supervision, yet the relationship between repeated health visits and health outcomes is unclear. Likewise, the manner in which this health maintenance is delivered and the components of these visits have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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