1. Quality improvement in neurology: Child neurology quality measure set: Executive summary
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Erin Lee, Gogi Kumar, Christina L. Szperka, Erin Day Fecske, Sanjeev V. Kothare, Tim Feyma, Anup D. Patel, Anne T. Berg, Lori Billinghurst, Zachary M. Grinspan, Ann Yeh, Amy J. Houtrow, Migvis Monduy, Jeffrey Buchhalter, Daniel Fain, M. Cristina Victorio, and Diego Morita
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,Neurology ,Quality Assurance, Health Care ,Tourette syndrome ,Transient Tic Disorder ,Cerebral palsy ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Chronic Migraine ,030225 pediatrics ,Intensive care ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Societies, Medical ,business.industry ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,Quality Improvement ,United States ,Neurology (clinical) ,Nervous System Diseases ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Childhood neurologic disorders, as a group, include relatively common conditions such as migraine (prevalence between 3% and 10.6% in children 3–15 years of age1,2), transient tic disorders (TDs) (3%),3 and specifically Tourette syndrome (TS) (0.8%),3 and rarer disorders such as infantile spasms that may occur in only about 1,200 infants each year in the United States. These disorders account for a disproportionately higher number of emergency department visits, intensive care admissions, deaths, and higher costs when compared to other childhood illness.4 Generally, delivery of quality care should improve outcomes and result in decreased unnecessary utilization of health services.4
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- 2017