What are Key Components of Quality Pediatric Care?
Several key components contribute to quality pediatric care:
1. Safety: Implementing practices to prevent medical errors and harm. 2. Effectiveness: Providing care based on scientific knowledge and evidence-based guidelines. 3. Patient-Centeredness: Ensuring care is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values. 4. Timeliness: Reducing wait times and harmful delays for both those who receive and provide care. 5. Efficiency: Avoiding waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy. 6. Equity: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.
