Assuring Quality Outpatient Care for Children

This book describes a quality assurance system for paediatric out-patient departments. The result of input from a large number of paediatricians and of a careful review of the medical literature, these guidelines address the uneven quality and unnecessary cost of much of the paediatric ambulatory health care currently provided. The book can serve as a manual for anyone who would like to implement the system. It also places the system in the context of major health care issues such as quality assurance, cost-effectiveness, and health care administration. Hospital administrators, health care systems analysts, government health agencies, pediatricians, and primary care providers.