AAP News Vol. 15 No. 12 December 1999, p. 18
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Zanzola, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

$6.5 million initiative seeks practice-based quality improvement

Luann Zanzola

Closing the gap between what pediatricians know and what they do is the goal of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), a $6.5 million project in which the Academy is a partner.

"Practitioners are working really hard every day to bring good care to children," said Carole Lannon, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, of Chapel Hill, N.C. She is AAP liaison to NICHQ. "We know that, despite all this hard work and noble effort, there are gaps in the care that children receive. For instance, we know that the care of children with asthma often falls short of what expert guidelines might suggest.