How to scale up primary care transformation: what we know and what we need to know?Charles J Homer
National Initiative for Children s Healthcare Quality, 30 Winter St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108 4720, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:625-9. 2010
..Each factor raises researchable questions about what policies can facilitate achieving success so that transformation becomes mainstream rather than the province of the innovative few...
Childhood obesity: what's health care policy got to do with it?Charles Homer
National Initiative for Children s Healthcare Quality, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:441-4. 2007
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- Impact of a quality improvement program on care and outcomes for children with asthma
Charles J Homer
National Initiative for Children s Health Care Quality, 375 Longwood Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:464-9. 2005
..To test a quality improvement intervention, a learning collaborative based on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series methodology, specifically intended to improve care and outcomes for patients with childhood asthma...
- Improving care for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: assessing the impact of self-assessment and targeted training on practice performance
Charles J Homer
National Initiative for Children s Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ambul Pediatr 4:436-41. 2004
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- Exploring the business case for improving the quality of health care for children
Charles Homer
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:159-66. 2004
..It then identified barriers and solutions specific to children's health care, to ensure that children's unique needs are not lost in the debate...
- Sickle cell disease: a question of equity and quality
Lauren A Smith
Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 117:1763-70. 2006
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- A family-centered, community-based system of services for children and youth with special health care needs
James M Perrin
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:933-6. 2007
..Previous work by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to define CYSHCN has had widespread program effects. This article similarly seeks to provide a definition of a system of services...
- Length of stay for common pediatric conditions: teaching versus nonteaching hospitals
Rajendu Srivastava
Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 112:278-81. 2003
..The objective of this study was to compare length of stay (LOS) for common pediatric conditions between teaching and nonteaching hospitals...
- Projected cost-effectiveness of statewide universal newborn hearing screening
Ron Keren
Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 110:855-64. 2002
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- Improving children's health care: an interview with Charles Homer. Interview by Steven Berman
Charles Homer
National Initiative for Children's Health Care Quality (NICHQ, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:139-47. 2002
- Impact of a health maintenance organization hospitalist system in academic pediatrics
Christopher P Landrigan
Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 110:720-8. 2002
..We wanted to determine whether a health maintenance organization's (HMO's) implementation of a pediatric hospitalist system affected LOS, costs, mortality, readmission rate, follow-up rate, and parents' ratings of care...
- Diagnostic practices for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a national survey of primary care physicians
Eugenia Chan
Division of General Pediatrics, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:201-8. 2005
..Although previous studies have shown wide variation in diagnostic practices for ADHD, few recent studies have examined nationally representative samples...
- Health care use and costs for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: national estimates from the medical expenditure panel survey
Eugenia Chan
Health Services Research, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, LO 240, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:504-11. 2002
..Although attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent chronic condition of childhood, little is known about patterns of health care use and associated expenditures...
A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needsCharles J Homer
National Initiative for Children s Healthcare Quality, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 122:e922-37. 2008
..The receipt of health care in a medical home is increasingly touted as a fundamental basis for improved care for persons with chronic conditions, yet the evidence for this claim has not been systematically assessed...
- Leadership by example: the Institute of Medicine's view of how Federal Health Care Programs can improve quality of care
James M Perrin
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 3:162-3. 2003
- Are hospital characteristics associated with parental views of pediatric inpatient care quality?
John Patrick T Co
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 111:308-14. 2003
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- The quality of children's health care matters--time to pay attention
James M Perrin
N Engl J Med 357:1549-51. 2007
- For love, for money, or for both? Which way will we choose to transform children's health care?
Charles J Homer
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:715-7. 2007
- Women's health after pregnancy and child outcomes at age 3 years: a prospective cohort study
Robert S Kahn
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1312-8. 2002
..This study examined the persistence and comorbidity of women's physical and mental health conditions after pregnancy and the association of these conditions with child outcomes...
- Impact of a hospitalist system on length of stay and cost for children with common conditions
Rajendu Srivastava
Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 100 N Medical Dr, Primary Children s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, USA
Pediatrics 120:267-74. 2007
..This study examined mechanisms of efficiency in a managed care hospitalist system on length of stay and total costs for common pediatric conditions...
- Screening for chlamydia infection: recommendations and rationale. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Alfred O Berg
US Preventive Forces Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Am J Nurs 102:87-92; discussion 93. 2002
