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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2004;291:2688-2689.

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While concerns about health care quality in the United States usually center on adult conditions, children also are generally receiving suboptimal care, according to findings by the Commonwealth Fund.

A wide range of quality indicators point to lower levels of health care delivery for younger patients, note authors of a review released last month by the foundation, which supports independent research on health and social issues. The review, Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook (available online at http://www.cmwf.org/programs/leatherman_pedchtbk_700.asp), says that one third of children with asthma do not receive appropriate medications to control the condition, fewer than half of adolescents discuss health behaviors with their clinician, and three fourths of children with severe mental health problems are not evaluated or treated.

"The main message in the report is that there really is a significant problem in the quality of care children get," said . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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