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Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts
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Fiscal Year 2011
This fact sheet summarizes new grants and contracts focused on child and adolescent health and health care—including research, conference, and training projects, as well as other initiatives—funded in FY 2011 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Contents
Introduction
Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Dissertation Grants
Conference Grants
AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program
Interagency Agreement
For More Information
Introduction
The mission of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality is to
improve the safety, quality, efficiency,
and effectiveness of health care for all
Americans. Children are one of
AHRQ's designated priority
populations. To help achieve the
Agency's mission for children, AHRQ
supports extramural research grants and
contracts, research training, conference
grants, and intramural activities.
This fact sheet provides information on
extramural activities related to children's
health that were initiated during fiscal
year 2011. Each summary includes the
title of the project, the name and, where
applicable, the affiliation of the
principal investigator, AHRQ project
number, project dates, and a brief
summary.
Please select for more
information about AHRQ's activities
related to children's health and health
care.
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Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Research Grants
- Acceleration to Expertise: Simulation
as a Tool to Improve the Recognition
of Sepsis. Gary L. Geis, MD, Principal
Investigator; Children's Hospital
Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
AHRQ grant HS20455; project period
April 1, 2011-March 31, 2014. Sepsis is
associated with significant morbidity
and mortality in both children and
adults, and the incidence of sepsis
appears to be increasing. Outcomes
from sepsis in critically ill children and
adults can be improved with early
recognition, yet subtle signs and
nonspecific symptoms mean that sepsis
is a diagnostic challenge for novice
clinicians. The central hypothesis for
this project is that simulation-based
training can accelerate the development
of expertise needed by novice clinicians
to quickly and accurately recognize
sepsis. To test this hypothesis, the
researchers will (1) use cognitive task analysis to identify the behaviors that
distinguish expert clinicians in the
recognition of sepsis at the bedside and
(2) use that information to develop and
implement simulation-based training
that will provide novice clinicians with
the tools they need to rapidly attain
clinical expertise.
- Electronic Surveillance for Wound
Infections After Ambulatory Pediatric
Surgery. Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH,
Principal Investigator; Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
PA. AHRQ grant HS20921; project
period September 30, 2011-September
29, 2016. Surgical site infection (SSI) is
the second most commonly reported
health care-associated infection in
children, as well as adults. Little is
known about the epidemiology of SSIs
that occur following surgery, and there
are few data to support the prevailing
assumption that outpatient surgery is
associated with a low risk of SSI. The
electronic health record (EHR) holds
promise as a tool for efficient and
targeted SSI surveillance. The goals of
this project are to (1) define the
incidence of and risk factors for SSI
after ambulatory pediatric surgery, (2)
determine the data elements to be
included in an EHR to efficiently
identify SSIs in pediatric postsurgical
patients, and (3) create and validate an
EHR-embedded workstation that will
facilitate efficient and effective SSI
surveillance following ambulatory
pediatric surgery.
- Improving Adolescent Primary Care
Through an Interactive Behavioral
Health Model. Elizabeth Ozer, PhD,
Principal Investigator; University of
California at San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA. AHRQ grant HS20997;
project period September 1, 2011-August 31, 2013. Health information technology with clinical decision
support has tremendous potential to
improve health care quality and
subsequent behavioral health outcomes
for adolescents. The goals of this project
are to (1) develop a computerized
behavioral/emotional health module
that would be acceptable to diverse
teenagers (aged 12-18 years) and the
clinicians who care for them in primary
care settings; (2) pilot test the module in
adolescent primary care, assessing
clinician, adolescent, and system
outcomes; (3) test the effects of the
module on the screening of adolescents
by primary care providers for risky
health behaviors and emotional distress;
(4) assess whether use of the module is
related to changes in the adolescents'
knowledge and health; and (5) assess the
new system's impact on practice
operations.
- Improving Pediatric Resuscitation: A
Simulation Program for the
Community Emergency Department.
Linda L. Brown, MD, Principal
Investigator; Rhode Island Hospital,
Providence, RI. AHRQ grant HS20286;
project period April 1, 2011-March 31,
2014. Pediatric emergencies with critical
consequences are an infrequent
occurrence in community emergency
departments (CEDs), and as with any
rare, high-acuity event, there is an
elevated risk of error, failure in medical
decisionmaking, and other adverse
events. Medical teams in CEDs seldom
get an opportunity to practice pediatric
resuscitation, yet they are expected and
required to perform at the highest level
when a severely ill or injured child
comes through their doors. The focus of
this project is to assess the ability of
training using high-fidelity, in situ
medical simulation to improve the
resuscitation of pediatric patients in
CEDs. The researchers will (1) use in situ medical simulation and expert
debriefing to conduct a statewide needs
analysis of CEDs during pediatric
resuscitations; (2) identify latent safety
hazards and observable errors
encountered during the care of
simulated ill and injured children in
CEDs; (3) implement a statewide,
simulation-enhanced evidence-based
and data-driven educational
intervention; and (4) evaluate the
effectiveness and sustainability of the
training through ongoing assessments
and review of actual patient care.
- Improving Post-Hospital Transitions
and Ambulatory Care for Children
with Asthma. Flory L. Nkoy, MD, MS,
MPH, Principal Investigator; University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. AHRQ
grant HS18678; project period April 1,
2011-March 31, 2014. Children
hospitalized for asthma are at increased
risk for subsequent emergency
department visits and hospital
admissions. This project will examine
the use of health information
technology (health IT) applications to
improve post-hospital care transitions
and doctor-patient communication for
children with asthma. The researchers
will develop and implement two health
IT applications to change the way
asthma care is delivered, from an
approach centered on acute care and
intermittent physician visits, to one in
which health IT is used to enable
continuous communication between
patients and care providers for asthma
care decisionmaking. The goal of the
project is to ensure effective care
transitions and continuity of care for
children with asthma after hospital
discharge and to reduce readmissions.
- Symptom Monitoring and Reporting
System for Pediatric Chronic Illness.
Jin-Shei Lai, PhD, Principal
Investigator; Northwestern University at
Chicago, Chicago, IL. AHRQ grant
HS19071; project period March 1,
2011-February 28, 2013. Efforts to
manage symptoms experienced by
children with chronic illness have not
kept pace with advances in treatment,
and there are various barriers to timely
symptom management that exist at the
patient, clinician, and system levels.
This project will examine the use of a
patient-oriented, technology-based,
symptom monitoring system—the
Symptom Monitoring and Reporting
System in Pediatric Populations
(SyMon-Peds)—to focus on a single
symptom, fatigue in children
undergoing treatment for cancer. The
study will involve 100 cancer patients
aged 7-17 and one parent each who will
complete an 8-week intervention to
assess the feasibility of implementing the
SyMon-Peds system in pediatric
oncology clinics. The study will evaluate
its acceptability to parents of children
with cancer and the children's clinicians,
as well as parents' satisfaction with the
system and its efficacy in managing
fatigue. The researchers also will
measure fatigue-related distress,
perceived barriers to fatigue
management, and health protective
behaviors to identify possible mediators
of the effectiveness of this novel health
IT intervention.
- Utilizing Health Information
Technology to Improve Health Care
Quality: Implementation of a
Computerized Cognitive Behavior
Therapy Protocol for Childhood
Anxiety. Eric A. Storch, PhD, MS,
Principal Investigator; University of
South Florida, Tampa, FL. AHRQ grant
HS18665; project period September 30,
2011-September 29, 2014. Childhood
anxiety disorders are quite common and
associated with significant psychosocial
impairment and distress. Cognitive
behavioral therapy (CBT) is a first-line
treatment for anxiety disorders in youth,
but dissemination of CBT to
community settings has been very
limited. This project involves a two-phase
trial to examine the feasibility and
efficacy of implementing a patient-centered
intervention for childhood
anxiety disorders in three South Florida
community mental health centers. In
the first phase, the researchers will
conduct an open trial of computerized
CBT involving 18 youth ages 7 to 13
years to examine feasibility issues. In the
second phase, the researchers will recruit
110 youth to measure the efficacy of the
protocol in front-line settings. Primary
outcome measures will include change
in anxiety symptom severity, response
rates, and remission rates.
Cooperative Agreements
AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality
Measures Program Centers of
Excellence
In early 2009, Congress passed the
Children's Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA, Public
Law 111-3), which presents an
unprecedented opportunity to measure
and improve health care quality and
outcomes for the Nation's children,
including the almost 40 million
children enrolled in Medicaid and/or
the Children's Health Insurance
Program (CHIP). Since the law was
passed, AHRQ and the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
have been working together to
implement selected provisions of the
legislation related to children's health
care quality. The law called first for the
identification of an initial set of core measures to be used to assess voluntarily
the state of children's health care quality
across and within State Medicaid and
CHIP programs and then for
establishment of the CHIPRA Pediatric
Quality Measures Program (PQMP) to
improve and strengthen the initial core
set of measures and develop new
measures as needed.
In fiscal year 2011, with CHIPRA
funds from CMS, AHRQ funded seven
cooperative agreement grants to
establish and support the CHIPRA
PQMP Centers of Excellence (COEs).
Each of these programs comprises
multiple entities with diverse talents and
expertise that can be applied to
investigate and find solutions to some of
the most pressing issues in child health
quality measurement. In addition,
AHRQ and CMS awarded a contract
(290-2011-00004-C) to RTI
International, Research Triangle Park,
NC, for the CHIPRA Coordinating
and Technical Assistance Center to assist
AHRQ, CMS, and the COEs in
developing and improving measures of
children's health care quality. For more
information on the CHIPRA work
underway, visit
http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra/.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Center of
Excellence on Quality of Care
Measures for Children with Complex
Needs. Rita Mangione-Smith, MD,
MPH, Principal Investigator; Seattle
Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA.
AHRQ grant HS20506; project period
March 1, 2011-February 28, 2015. This
COE is developing tools to identify
children with special health care needs
and to identify social complexity for
care coordination and measures of care
coordination in the context of the
medical home, transitions between care
settings, mental health care quality in
the emergency department and hospital,
and avoidable mental health admissions
to emergency departments and
hospitals.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Children's
Hospital Boston Center of Excellence
for Quality Measurement. Mark A.
Schuster, MD, PhD, Principal
Investigator; Children's Hospital Boston,
Boston, MA. AHRQ grant HS20513;
project period March 1, 2011-February
28, 2015. This COE is focusing on
development of a measure of child
inpatient experiences of care, hospital
readmission measures, and measures of
the quality of transitions between child-focused
and adult-focused care settings
and providers; access to disability
support services; and the development
of a global tool to measure patient safety
across pediatric care settings.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Mount Sinai
Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric
Quality Measures. Lawrence C.
Kleinman, MD, MPH, Principal
Investigator; Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, NY. AHRQ grant
HS20518; project period March 1,
2011-February 28, 2015. This COE is
working on measures of asthma
emergency department visits, availability
of high-risk obstetric care, temperature
on admission to the neonatal intensive
care unit, and general medical
reconciliation, as well as medical
reconciliation for patients receiving
mental health care. Another focus is
measures of the quality of followup of
pediatric patients after a mental health
hospitalization.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP National
Collaborative for Innovation in
Quality Measurement. Sarah H.
Scholle, MPH, DrPH, Principal
Investigator; National Committee for
Quality Assurance, Washington, DC.
AHRQ grant HS20503; project period
March 1, 2011-February 28, 2015.
Topics of measure development at this
COE include content of well-child and
well-adolescent care, depression
screening and followup for adolescents,
and a youth-reported survey. The COE
is also working on measures of screening
for alcohol and substance use; diagnosis,
treatment, and followup for alcohol and
substance use; measures for children in
child welfare, including care
coordination for socially complex
children without chronic conditions;
and quality of psychotropic use,
including antipsychotic use.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Pediatric
Measurement Center of Excellence.
Ramesh C. Sachdeva, MD, PhD, MBA,
Principal Investigator; Medical College
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. AHRQ
grant HS20498; project period March
1, 2011-February 28, 2015. This COE
is working on measures of the quality of
developmental screening and followup.
Other topics underway include a
measure to assess the continuum of care
and measures relevant to the quality of
pediatric intensive care, dental
treatment, the content of prenatal care
and ADHD diagnosis and followup.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Pediatric
Quality Measurement Center and
Testing Laboratory. Jeffrey H. Silber,
MD, PhD, Principal Investigator;
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, PA. AHRQ grant
HS20508; project period March 1,
2011-February 28, 2015. This COE is
currently working on a measure of the
quality of care for otitis media with
effusion, specifically a measure to assess
avoidance of systematic antimicrobial
use. Other topics address patient-reported
outcomes, including functional
assessment; neonatal intensive care unit
readmissions, outcomes, and cost; and
episode of care/quality-cost measures.
- AHRQ-CMS PQMP Quality
Measurement, Evaluation, Testing,
Review, and Implementation
Consortium (Q-METRIC). Gary L.
Freed, MD, MPH, Principal
Investigator; University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI. AHRQ
grant HS20516; project period March
1, 2011-February 28, 2015. This COE
is focusing on quality of care measures
for sickle cell disease care, body mass
index followup and treatment, seizures
and headaches (imaging), respiratory
conditions, septicemia, and the
availability of health care services other
than high-risk obstetrics.
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Dissertation Grants
- The Effect of Risk and Side Effect
Communication on Asthma
Medication Adherence. Christopher
M. Gillette, Principal Investigator;
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. AHRQ grant
HS20534; project period July 1, 2011-April 30, 2012. Asthma is the most
common chronic disease affecting U.S.
children, and for those with persistent
symptoms, optimal symptom control
depends on children taking daily asthma
control medication. However, children's
adherence to asthma control medication
is consistently reported as poor. This
doctoral candidate will perform a
secondary data analysis of survey and
clinic visit audiotapes that were collected
in five rural general pediatric practices
from 2006 through 2009, including 35
pediatricians and 296 patients with
persistent asthma symptoms. The goal is
to determine how general pediatricians,
who treat most children for their
persistent asthma symptoms,
communicate about the risks and side
effects of asthma control medications.
The ultimate goal is to improve doctor-patient-caregiver communication about
the benefits, risks, and side effects
associated with asthma control
medications and thereby improve
mediation adherence.
- Exploring the Adaptive and
Interpretive Dynamics of
Implementation in Infection
Prevention. Julia E. Szymczak, Principal
Investigator; University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA. AHRQ grant
HS20760; project period July 15, 2011-October 14, 2012. The gap between
what should be done to prevent health
care-associated infections (HAIs) and
what is actually done is a critical barrier
to improvement in infection prevention.
Little is known about the dynamics of
implementation in infection prevention
or the challenges faced by health care
institutions in getting their workers to
consistently follow measures designed to
prevent HAIs. This doctoral candidate
will explore the experiences of one
hospital as it implements an
organization-wide infection prevention
initiative. The goal is to identify barriers
and facilitators to successful
organizational change.
- Implementation of Electronic Medical
Records for Documentation:
Implications for Efficiency and Safety
of Work Flow in Labor and Delivery.
Kathleen Pine, Principal Investigator;
University of California at Irvine, Irvine,
CA. AHRQ grant HS20753; project
period July 6, 2011-September 30,
2012. Electronic medical record (EMR)
documentation systems are expected to
increase the quality, safety, effectiveness,
and efficiency of health care delivery
through improvements in legibility and
organization of patient information,
communication among providers, and
creation of a centralized registry of
patient information that can be built
and accessed by multiple providers and
clinics. Currently, however, these
potential benefits remain largely
unrealized. This doctoral candidate will
examine the impact of EMR
implementation on the work processes
and information flow in an inpatient
labor and delivery unit. Findings from
this research will result in a set of
guidelines and considerations for
effective EMR implementation
processes that help hospitals and
providers to reengineer current work
systems and documentation routines
around the new system.
- Nurses' Information Needs While
Caring for Hospitalized Children.
Tiffany Kelley, Principal Investigator;
Duke University, Durham, NC. AHRQ
grant HS21075; project period
September 1, 2011-May 31, 2012.
There is scant empirical information to
describe how, why, and for what
purpose nurses use paper-based nursing
documentation to collect and
communicate information about
patients in addition to other verbal,
written, and electronic forms of
communication. Such information is
needed in order to effectively evaluate
the use of electronic nursing
information on improvements in the
safety and quality of care provided to
hospitalized patients. This doctoral
candidate will use a descriptive mixed-methods
multiple case study design to
investigate two cases, each of which
represents an inpatient pediatric unit at
Duke University Hospital, where a
switch was made from paper-based
nursing documentation to electronic
nursing documentation in April 2011.
Findings from this study will be used to
create standards for nursing
documentation, enhance and refine the
design of electronic nursing documentation systems, and identify
hardware devices that integrate with
nursing workflow to maximize the
collection and communication of
patient information in hospital settings.
- A Qualitative Description of a Pilot
Project to Improve Access to Care in
one Dental Health Professional
Shortage Area. Sarah E. Raskin,
Principal Investigator; University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ. AHRQ grant
HS19117; project period July 6, 2011-September 30, 2012. Residents of rural
central Appalachia bear a
disproportionate burden of oral disease.
Reports document adult loss of most or
all teeth, and dental decay in children in
the region is at seven times the rate of
the rest of the Nation. In February
2009, a pilot project was begun
allowing public health dental hygienists
to provide basic services in the region.
This doctoral candidate will evaluate the
project and document the experiences of
adult patients, parents of child patients,
dental hygienists, and the dentists who
supervised them remotely, as well as the
experiences of patients and providers
who chose not to participate. A set of
recommendations will be developed for
how subsequent iterations of the project
could be improved to deliver better oral
care to one AHRQ priority population,
low-income rural residents.
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Conference Grants
- Developing a Research Agenda for an
Adolescent-Centered Model of
Primary Care. Harriette Fox, MSS,
Principal Investigator; National Alliance
to Advance Adolescent Health,
Washington, DC. AHRQ grant
HS19251; project period September 1,
2011-August 31, 2012. This project
provides support for an invitational
conference to foster development of a
research agenda focused on design and
implementation of a patient-centered
primary care model that addresses the
unique needs of adolescents for
behavioral, reproductive, and physical
health care, as well as early intervention
and preventive health care services. The
conference agenda will focus on three
primary topics: (1) enhancing clinical
preventive services to reduce risk and
identify conditions early; (2) integrating
physical, behavioral, and reproductive
health care; and (3) increasing outreach,
engagement, and self-care management
for adolescents.
- Pediatric Quality Improvement
Methods, Research, and Evaluation
Conference. David A. Link, MD,
Principal Investigator; Academic
Pediatric Association, McLean, VA.
AHRQ grant HS20567; project period
March 1, 2011-February 29, 2012. This
project provided support for a 1-day
conference on health services research
design and methodology for pediatric
quality improvement held in April 2011
in conjunction with the Pediatric
Academic Societies annual meeting.
Despite the recognized need for quality
improvement in pediatric care, there are
gaps in the application of rigorous
research methodologies for
understanding whether current
innovations are truly effective in
improving care. The purpose of this
meeting was to disseminate and advance
state-of-the-art research methods for
health care quality improvement
research focused on children and
adolescents.
- Society for Pediatric Sedation
Consensus Meeting: Defining Quality
in Pediatric Sedation. J. Michael
Connors, MD, Principal Investigator;
Society for Pediatric Sedation,
Richmond, VA. AHRQ grant
HS20729; project period September 30,
2011-September 29, 2012. This project
provides support for an expert meeting
of multidisciplinary sedation providers
to begin the process of defining quality
as it relates to the field of pediatric
sedation. The objective of the meeting is
to produce for dissemination: (1)
definitions of the Institute of Medicine's
six aims of quality as they relate to
pediatric sedation; (2) recommendations
on how quality can be measured within
the field of pediatric sedation; (3) an
assessment of established protocols and
practices related to pediatric sedation
needed to establish quality benchmarks;
and (4) recommended research and
educational priorities for the field to
advance the work in defining and
measuring quality within pediatric
sedation.
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AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program
Through its Effective Health Care
program, AHRQ funds researchers
through research centers and academic
organizations to work together with the
Agency to produce effectiveness and
comparative effectiveness research for
clinicians, consumers, and policymakers.
Comparative effectiveness research is
designed to inform health care decisions
by providing evidence on the
effectiveness, benefits, and harms of
different treatment options. The
evidence is synthesized from research
studies that compare drugs, medical
devices, tests, surgeries, or ways to
deliver health care. More information
about AHRQ's Effective Health Care
Program is available at
http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov.
The following initiatives related to child
health were started by the Effective
Health Care Program in FY 2011.
- Interventions Addressing Child
Exposure to Trauma: Part 1, Child
Maltreatment; and Part 2, Trauma
Other than Child Maltreatment and
Violence. Part 1 will focus on the
comparative effectiveness of
interventions that address child exposure
to familial trauma in the form of
maltreatment, including post-traumatic
stress disorder as an outcome of interest.
Part 2 will focus on the comparative
effectiveness of interventions—including
pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, as
well as complementary and behavioral
therapies and systems interventions—that address child exposure to traumatic
experiences other than maltreatment,
including terrorism, war, refugee status,
natural disasters, fire, motor vehicle and
other accidents, medical trauma,
community or school violence, parent
separation or divorce, dating violence,
and death of a loved one.
- Future Research Needs for First- and
Second-Generation Antipsychotics for
Children and Young Adults. RTI
International-University of North
Carolina Evidence-based Practice
Center, AHRQ Contract 290-2007-10056. The purpose of this project was
to identify and prioritize the evidence
gaps and future research needs regarding
the benefits and harms of first- and
second-generation antipsychotics for the
treatment of various psychiatric and
behavioral conditions in individuals 24
years of age or younger. A draft of the
report was published February 20, 2012,
and comments were accepted until
March 19, 2012.
- Comparative Effectiveness of
Treatments for Otitis Media with
Effusion. This review of treatment
strategies for otitis media with effusion
(OME) will address the following
unresolved questions: Who benefits
from treatment? Who benefits from
watchful waiting and who does not?
What are the harms associated with the
various OME treatments and strategies?
Do various surgical techniques differ in
their ability to treat OME?
- Comparative Effectiveness of
Childhood Obesity Prevention
Programs. This review will compare the
effectiveness of obesity intervention
programs for children and adolescents
conducted in the United States and
other developed countries.
- Interventions for Adolescents and
Young Adults with Autism Spectrum
Disorders. This review will examine
interventions, outcomes, and access to
care for adolescents and young adults
aged 13 to 30 with an autism spectrum
disorder, which includes autistic
disorder, Asperger syndrome, and
pervasive developmental disorder–not
otherwise specified.
- Future Research Needs—Interventions
for Adolescents and Young Adults
with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The
purpose of this project will be to identify
and prioritize the evidence gaps and
future research needs for treatment of
adolescents and young adults with
autism spectrum disorders.
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Interagency Agreement
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Interagency Agreement
between AHRQ and CDC's National
Center for Health Statistics. Interagency
Agreement 11-HS09-4006-CPCB. This
IAA provides funds to support the work
of the Federal Interagency Forum on
Child and Family Statistics. The purpose
of the Forum is to foster collaboration
among Federal agencies that produce or
use statistical data on children and
families. The Forum produces the
annual report America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being,
available at http://www.childstats.gov. AHRQ
is represented on the Forum's Executive
Committee.
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. AHRQ helps to support this Forum which produces annual reports on the well-being of children. The Web site for this activity is http://www.childstats.gov.
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For More Information
AHRQ's World Wide Web site
(http://www.ahrq.gov) provides
information on the Agency's children's
health services research agenda and
funding opportunities. In addition,
AHRQ also offers a child and adolescent
health email update service to which
users may subscribe (go to
https://subscriptions.ahrq.gov/accounts/USAHRQ/subscriber/new? and follow
the prompts).
Further details on AHRQ's programs
and priorities in child health services
research are available from:
Denise M. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, Child Health and
Quality Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
Denise.Dougherty@ahrq.hhs.gov
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AHRQ Publication No. 12-P007-EF
Current as of May 2012
Internet Citation:
Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts, Fiscal Year 2011. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication 12-P007-EF, May 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/childr11.htm
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