Leveraging Quality Measurement to Achieve Best Practice Rheumatology Care: Can Pediatrics Lead Us?

Affiliations

¹ Dignity Health Mercy Medical Group, Citrus Heights, California, and Tuoro University, Vallejo, California.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut.

Editorial

Shraddha Jatwani et al. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Dec.

. 2023 Dec;75(12):2420-2422.

doi: 10.1002/acr.25195. Epub 2023 Sep 13.

¹ Dignity Health Mercy Medical Group, Citrus Heights, California, and Tuoro University, Vallejo, California.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut.

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Comment on

Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network's Quality Measure Set to Improve Care of Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
Bingham CA, Harris JG, Qiu T, Gilbert M, Vora SS, Yildirim-Toruner C, Ferraro K, Lovell DJ, Taylor J, Mannion ML, Weiss JE, Laxer RM, Shishov M, Oberle EJ, Gottlieb BS, Lee TC, Pan N, Burnham JM, Fair DC, Batthish M, Hazen MM, Spencer CH, Morgan EM; Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network. Bingham CA, et al. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Dec;75(12):2442-2452. doi: 10.1002/acr.25168. Epub 2023 Jul 13. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023. PMID: 37308458

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