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• Measuring the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services for Young Children: National Estimates and Patterns of Clinicians’ Performance.
  Christina Bethell, Colleen Reuland, Neal Halfon, and Edward Schor. Pediatrics, June 2004; Vol. 113, pp. 1973-83. This study, part of a special issue of Pediatrics, generates a national picture of performance in the area of preventive and developmental services for young children using four composite quality measures in the areas of 1) anticipatory guidance and parental education, 2) screening for family psychosocial risks, 3) screening for smoking and drug and alcohol use in the home, and 4) provision of family-centered care. (From Abstract)
  Measuring the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services for Young Children: National Estimates and Patterns of Clinicians’ Performance.

• Methods for evaluating the provision of well child care
  Kathleen M. Schneider et al. Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. Dec 2001;27(12):673-82. Available online at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jcaho/jcjqs/2001/00000027/00000012/art00004 This article compares administrative data and medical record review to ascertain the number of well child visits provided.
  Methods for evaluating the provision of well child care

• Studying and Tracking Early Child Development from a Health Perspective: A Review of Available Data Sources.
  Brett Brown and Martha Zazlow (Washington, DC: Child Trends, February 2006) In this report, the authors review existing national data sources in terms of their capacity to inform child health policy and practice in their efforts to promote early child development. The body of the report provides an overview of existing areas of strength, identifies gaps, and makes recommendations for future data development. Some 26 national surveys and administrative data sources are assessed for their collective ability to support research and for their adequacy as sources of descriptive social indicator data. (From Executive Summary)
  Studying and Tracking Early Child Development from a Health Perspective: A Review of Available Data Sources.

• The National Survey of Early Childhood Health
  Stephen J. Blumberg, Neal Halfon, and Lynn M. Olson. Pediatrics Vol. 113 No. 6 June 2004, pp. 1899-1906. The National Survey of Early Childhood Health (NSECH) is a new survey that was designed to provide nationally representative data on the health and development of children and to fill an information gap in the pediatric literature on parents’ views of the delivery of health care to their young children
  The National Survey of Early Childhood Health