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Evaluating Proxy Interview Responses

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159:193-194.

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Recent years have seen increasing recognition of the importance of considering the unique qualities of children in measuring health care use. Such increased recognition has been manifested in growing numbers of publications specifically measuring children’s health outcomes,¹ directed funding for studies of children from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies (including a health services component of the National Children’s Study),² and the inclusion of children in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s policy on priority populations.¹

One approach to measuring children’s health care use is through population-based national surveys, such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of American Families (NSAF), Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and the Community Tracking Household Survey (CTHS). Such surveys are used to assess children’s access to health care, quality of care for such conditions as asthma and otitis media, and health-related expenditures.^{1, 3} Because of the unique status . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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William O. Cooper, MD, MPH

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