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AAP
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Please see "American Academy of Pediatrics."
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ADA
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Please see "Americans with Disabilities Act."
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. For more information, visit http://ahrq.gov.
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AHRQ
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Please see "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality."
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being of all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. For more information, visit http://www.aap.org.
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities, such as buying an item at the store, going to the movies, enjoying a meal at a local restaurant, exercising at the health club, or having their car serviced at a local garage. For more information, visit http://www.ada.gov/business.htm.
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BMI
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Please see "body mass index."
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BMI-for-age
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BMI-for-age is a screening tool used to identify children and adolescents who are underweight and overweight. Unlike BMI for adults, BMI-for-age is both age and gender specific, and is not used for children younger than 2 years. This tool can be used to trace overweight from childhood into adulthood, correlates well with clinical factors for cardiovascular disease, and provides a reference for adolescents not previously available.
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body mass index
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A mathematical formula to assess relative body weight. The measure correlates highly with body fat. Calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2). For more information, visit http://www.americanheart.org.
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CAHMI
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Please see the "Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative."
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CAHPS-CCC
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Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey (please see definition below) with the addition of the Children with Chronic Conditions (CCC) module. For more information, visit https://www.cahps.ahrq.gov.
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CAHPS®
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Please see the "Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey®."
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care coordination
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Care coordination refers to those services that promote the effective and efficient organization and utilization of resources to ensure access to necessary comprehensive services for children with special health care needs and their families. (Source: http://www.hdwg.org/catalyst/glossary/1#letterc)
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CATCH
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Please see "Community Access to Child Health."
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CATI
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Please see "Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing."
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CDC
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Please see "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov .
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Center for Health Care Strategies
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The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is a nonprofit health policy resource center dedicated to advancing access, quality and cost-effectiveness in publicly financed health care. For more information, visit http://www.chcs.org.
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Center for Medical Home Improvement
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The mission of the Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI) is to promote high quality primary care in the medical home and secure health policy changes critical to the future of primary care. For more information, visit http://www.medicalhomeimprovement.org.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' mission is to ensure effective, up-to-date health care coverage and to promote quality care for beneficiaries. For more information, visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov.
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chance
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CHCS
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Please see "Center for Health Care Strategies."
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Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
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The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) was established in 1998. Its mission is to advance a high quality, consumer-centered health care system for children, youth, and families by providing leadership and resources for measuring and communicating information about the quality of health care for children and adolescents. The CAHMI involves consumer organizations, federal and state policymakers, health care purchasers, researchers, practitioners, and others that influence health care delivery, quality measurement, and reporting to develop, test, and deploy consumer-centered quality measures. For more information, visit http://www.cahmi.org.
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Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN, CYSHCN)
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The definition of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN, CYSHCN) comes from the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau and is used to identify the sample in the NS-CSHCN 2001 & 2005/06 and the NSCH 2003. Children with special health care needs are those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. (McPherson M, Arango P, Fox H, et al. (1998) "A new definition of children with special health care needs", Pediatrics, 102: 137-140).
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CI
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Please see "confidence interval."
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CMHI
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Please see "Center for Medical Home Improvement."
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CMS
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Please see "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services."
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Community Access to Child Health
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The mission of CATCH is to support pediatricians who work with communities to ensure that all children have medical homes and access to any other needed health care services. For more information, click here.
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Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing
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Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) systems manage the survey sample for each interviewer and collect the respondent's data from the interviewer's direct entry into electronic files. (Source: BRFSS website, http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/pdf/userguide.pdf)
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confidence interval
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A range that contains the true population prevalence estimates a specified percentage of the time, if repeated sampling of the population were performed. The 95% confidence interval (CI) is a range that contains the true population estimate 95% of the time. A smaller range indicates an estimate that is more precise. Small sample sizes or cells with low numbers generate less precise estimates and will have wider confidence intervals. (Source: CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/OPHSS/CSELS/DSEPD/SS1978/Glossary.html#C)
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Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey®
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The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ® (CAHPS®) is a multi-year initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support and promote the assessment of consumers' experiences with health care. For more information, visit https://www.cahps.ahrq.gov.
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CSHCN
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Please see "Children with Special Health Care Needs."
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cultural competency
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The ability to provide services to clients that honor different cultural beliefs, interpersonal styles, attitudes, and behaviors, as well as the use of multicultural staff in the policy development, administration, and provision of those services.
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CYSHCN
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Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Please see "Children with Special Health Care Needs."
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data
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Numerical information. Data is a plural term; the singular is datum. (Source: CSU, http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=90)
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dependent variable
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A dependent variable is measured and affected during the experiment. The dependent variable is dependent on the independent variable. You cannot have a dependent variable without and independent variable. (Source: NCSU.edu, https://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/po/dependentvar.htm)
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Direct Health Services
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Those services generally delivered one-on-one between a health professional and a patient in an office, clinic, or emergency room, which may include primary care physicians, registered dietitians, public health or visiting nurses, nurses certified for obstetric and pediatric primary care, medical social workers, nutritionists, dentists, subspecialty physicians who serve children with special health care needs, audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech and language therapists, and specialty registered dietitians. Basic services include what most consider ordinary medical care, inpatient and outpatient medical services, allied health services, drugs, laboratory testing, x-ray services, dental care, and pharmaceutical products and services.
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distribution
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A distribution is the spread of values from a given population. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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Early & Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, & Treatment
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The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit provides comprehensive and preventive health care services for children under age 21 who are enrolled in Medicaid. For more information, visit https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/epsdt/index.html.
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Early Intervention Research Institute
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Early Intervention Research Institute (EIRI) is an interdisciplinary organization committed to investigating and improving policies and practices that support the well-being of at-risk children as well as those with special needs and their families. We conduct research as well as provide training and technical assistance at community, state, national, and international levels. For more information, visit http://www.eiri.usu.edu/.
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Please see "Early Intervention Research Institute."
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EPSDT
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Please see "Early & Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, & Treatment."
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Family Voices
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Family Voices (FV), a national grassroots network of families and friends, advocates for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated, and culturally competent for all children and youth with special health care needs. It promotes the inclusion of all families as decision makers at all levels of health care, and supports essential partnerships between families and professionals. For more information, visit http://www.familyvoices.org.
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Family Voices State Coordinators
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Family Voices is represented in every state—as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands—by Network Members, either 1 or 2 appointed State Coordinators or by Chapter Representatives. Many state organizations are volunteers, while some are able to operate on a funded basis, generally through grants directly to their state Family Voices organization or to an associated organization. For more information, visit http://www.familyvoices.org.
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family-centered care
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A system or philosophy of care that incorporates the family as an integral component of the health care system.
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Federal Poverty Level
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The Federal Poverty Level numbers are based on the Federal Poverty Guidelines issued annually by the Department of Health and Human Services. It is used as a measure of eligibility for a wide variety of state and federal programs. For more information, visit http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty.
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FPL
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Please see "Federal Poverty Level."
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frequency table
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A frequency table is a way of summarizing a set of data. It is a record of how often each value (or set of values) of the variable in question occurs. (Source: Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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FV
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Please see "Family Voices."
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Health Resources and Services Administration
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)'s mission is to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative programs. For more information, visit http://www.hrsa.gov/index.html.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS), previously known as the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set, is a list of about 60 standardized performance measures developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington, DC. Currently, most health plans report their HEDIS results directly to NCQA as well as to their larger customers. For more information, visit http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/59/Default.aspx.
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Healthy People 2020
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Healthy People 2020 is a federal health initiative designed to promote preventative health in the United States, with the ultimate goals of increasing the quality and years of healthy life for citizens and eliminating health disparities. Designed by health experts inside and outside of the government, it identifies a wide range of public health priorities and specific, measurable objectives. For more information, visit http://www.healthypeople.gov.
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HEDIS
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Please see the "Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set."
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HP 2020
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Please see "Healthy People 2020."
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HRSA
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Please see "Health Resources and Services Administration."
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ICHP
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Please see "Institute for Child Health Policy."
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IDEA
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Please see "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act."
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independent variable
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A variable that causes fluctuation in a dependent variable. It may not be a variable that can be manipulated since it could be something that is fixed. (Source: NCSU.edu, https://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/po/independentvar.htm)
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indicator
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Statistical indicators are any quantitative data (often a single value derived from multiple individual survey questions) that provide evidence about the quality or standard of health.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the law that guarantees all children with disabilities access to a free and appropriate public education. (Source: Disabilities Studies and Services Center, http://idea.ed.gov/)
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Institute for Child Health Policy
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The mission of the Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP) is to research, evaluate, formulate, and advance health policies, programs, and systems that promote the health and well-being of children and youth. (Source: Institute for Child Health Policy website, http://www.ichp.ufl.edu)
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Maternal and Child Health Bureau
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The mission of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) is to provide national leadership, in partnership with key stakeholders, to improve the physical and mental health, safety and well-being of the maternal and child health (MCH) population which includes all of the nation’s women, infants, children, adolescents, and their families, including fathers and children with special health care needs. For more information, visit http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov.
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MCHB
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Please see "Maternal and Child Health Bureau."
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mean
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The mean is the arithmetic average of a data set; the sum of the values divided by number of values. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm).
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median
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The median is the middle value of observations arranged in order of magnitude. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm).
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medical home
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Medical home is primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In a medical home, a pediatric clinician works in partnership with the family/patient to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of the patient are met. Through this partnership, the pediatric clinician can help the family/patient access and coordinate specialty care, educational services, out-of-home care, family support, and other public and private community services that are important to the overall health of the child/youth and family. For more information, visit http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org.
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Metropolitan Statistical Areas
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Metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) are geographic entities defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) using published standards that are applied to Census Bureau data. A MSA is a county or group of contiguous counties that contains at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more population. In addition to the county or counties that contain all or part of the urbanized area, an MSA may contain other counties that are economically and socially integrated with the main city as measured by work commuting. For more information, please visit http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html.
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MSA
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Please see "Metropolitian Statistical Areas."
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n
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Represents the actual number of observations in a sample, such as responses to a survey question.
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NASHP
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Please see "National Academy for State Health Policy."
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National Academy for State Health Policy
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National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is an independent academy of state health policymakers working together to identify emerging issues, develop policy solutions, and improve state health policy and practice. NASHP provides a forum for constructive, nonpartisan work across branches and agencies of state government on critical health issues facing states. For more information, visit http://www.nashp.org.
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National Center for Cultural Competence
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The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity. For more information, visit http://nccc.georgetown.edu.
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National Center for Health Statistics
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of people. They are a public resource for health information—a critical element of public health and health policy. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance's vision is to transform health care quality through measurement, transparency and accountability. For more information, visit http://www.ncqa.org/AboutNCQA.aspx.
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National Health Interview Survey
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The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is the principal source of information on the health of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States and is one of the major data collection programs of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm.
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National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
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National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an action-oriented organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children. Founded in 1999, NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all children. For more information, visit http://www.nichq.org/about.
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National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
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National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN). The primary goal of this module is to assess the prevalence and impact of special health care needs among children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This survey explores the extent to which children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have medical homes, adequate health insurance, and access to needed services. Other topics include care coordination and satisfaction with care. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits/cshcn.htm.
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National Survey of Children's Health
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National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration and examines the physical and emotional health of children ages 0-17 years of age. Special emphasis is placed on factors that may relate to well-being of children, including medical homes, family interactions, parental health, school and after-school experiences, and safe neighborhoods. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits/nsch.htm.
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NCCC
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Please see "National Center for Cultural Competence."
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NCHS
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Please see "National Center for Health Statistics."
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NCQA
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Please see "National Committee for Quality Assurance."
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needs assessment
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A study undertaken to determine the service requirements within a jurisdiction. For maternal and child health purposes, the study is to aimed at determining: 1) what is essential in terms of the provision of health services; 2) what is available; and 3) what is missing.
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NHIS
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Please see "National Health Interview Survey."
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NICHQ
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Please see "National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality."
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NS-CSHCN
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Please see "National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs."
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NSCH
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Please see "National Survey of Children's Health."
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p-value
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A p-value shows the probability that sample data do not adequately represent the population from which they were drawn. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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performance measures
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A gauge used to assess the performance of a process or function of any organization. Quantitative or qualitative measures of the care and services delivered to enrollees (process) or the end result of that care and services (outcomes). Performance measures can be used to assess other aspects of an individual or organization's performance, such as access and availability of care, utilization of care, health plan stability, beneficiary characteristics, and other structural and operational aspect of health care services.
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population
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A population is every person in a category of interest. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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population estimate
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An estimate that has been weighted to represent a population rather than only the sample. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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population weights
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The population weights in the National Survey of CSHCN make adjustments for the probability of being selected, having a telephone, number of telephone lines, age, race/ethnicity and other demographic characteristics.
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prevalence
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The percent of the population with a particular condition or characteristic. To calculate prevalence you need to sum the number of individuals with a certain condition/characteristic and divide it by the number of people in the population of interest over a specified time. (Source: CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/OPHSS/CSELS/DSEPD/SS1978/Glossary.html#P)
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preventive services
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Activities aimed at reducing the incidence of health problems or disease prevalence in the community, or the personal risk factors for such diseases or conditions.
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primary care
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The provision of comprehensive personal health services that include health maintenance, preventive services, initial assessment of health problems, treatment of uncomplicated and diagnosed chronic health problems, and overall management of an individual's or family's health care services.
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probability
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A probability provides a quantitative description of the likely occurrence of a particular event. (Source: Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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QI
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Please see "quality improvement."
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quality improvement
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Systematic and continued efforts to improve all aspects of an organization or process to achieve optimal performance.
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random sampling
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Random sampling is a sampling technique where we select a group of subjects (a sample) for a study from a larger group (a population). Each has the same chance of being included in the sample. By using random sampling, the likelihood of bias is reduced. (Source: CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/OPHSS/CSELS/DSEPD/SS1978/Glossary.html#sampleRandom)
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regression equation
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A regression equation allows us to express the relationship between two (or more) variables algebraically. In particular, it indicates the extent to which you can predict some variables by knowing others, or the extent to which some are associated with others. (Source: Statistics Glossary, http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/paired_data.html#regeqn)
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reliability
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Reliability is the consistency of your measurement; the degree to which an instrument measures the same way each time it is used under the same conditions with the same subjects. (Source: CSU, http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=90)
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RUCA or RUCA Code
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Please see "Rural Urban Commuting Area"
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Rural Urban Commuting Area
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Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCAs) classification schema uses Census tract and/or zip code information to define urban and rural areas based on complex criteria including population density and population work commuting patterns. The RUCA framework categorizes cities and towns according to size and their functional relationships as measured by work commuting flows. The 33 separate RUCA classifications can be further aggregated for different applications by demographers, health care researchers, policy makers, and others. First released for public use in 1998, the RUCAs serve as the basis for eligibility for many federal programs and are being used by numerous health services researchers. An updated version (2.0) of the RUCA codes was released in 2005. For additional information, visit http://depts.washington.edu/uwruca/
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sample
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A sample is a group of units selected from a larger group (the population). By studying the sample it is hoped to draw valid conclusions about the larger group. (Source: Statistics Glossary, http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/basic_definitions.html#sample)
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sample size
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Sample size is the number of individuals selected for a study. A sample size is a subset of a population. (Source: CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/OPHSS/CSELS/DSEPD/SS1978/Glossary.html#sampleRandom) For example, the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health randomly sampled 102,353 children ages 0-17 in the U.S. to represent the total population of over 72 million children. The symbol "n" represents the number of responses (sample size) to a particular item in a survey in the Data Resource Center data query results tables. Sample size is related to the level of precision of prevalence estimates obtained through the survey. In general, larger samples provide estimates with a greater level of precision. The Data Resource Center recommends caution when interpreting results with "n" less than 50.
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significance
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Statistical significance is the probability that percentages or mean scores observed in the sample are truly different from each other. One way to determine statistical significance is to check whether the confidence intervals around the percentages or scores overlap. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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SLAITS
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Please see "State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey."
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standard deviation
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Standard deviation is a measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data. It is calculated by taking the square root of the variance. The more widely the values are spread out, the larger the standard deviation. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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standard error
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The standard error of a statistic is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of that statistic. Standard errors are important because they reflect how much sampling fluctuation a statistic will show. The standard error of a statistic depends on the sample size; in general, the larger the sample size, the smaller the standard error. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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standardization
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Data standardization is the process of statistically adjusting data from two or more populations in order to compare them and understand differences between the populations. (Source: Glossary of Statistical Terms, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm)
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State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey
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State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) collects important health care data at State and local levels. This data collection mechanism was developed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NHCS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It supplements current national data collection strategies by providing in-depth state and local area data to meet various program and policy needs in an ever-changing health care system. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits.htm.
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summary score
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Summary scores are a device for reporting health care quality information as concisely as possible by condensing a number of quality measures into a single piece of information. For example, rather than report scores for five preventive care measures, you could report one summary score for "Preventive Care" that reflects performance on all five measures.
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Synthetic Estimate
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Synthetic estimates are a way in which you can obtain local estimates using national data. A synthetic estimate is a prevalence estimate for a local area that is calculated by using descriptive or demographic data for local areas combined with state prevalence values. It is similar in concept to an indirect adjustment. A local estimate is most likely to differ from a state estimate if the demographic distribution at the local area differs from that of the state and the prevalence of the indicator varies by the same demographic factor. For more information on synthetic estimates, view our Local Uses of National and State Data Brief.
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TA
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Please see "technical assistance."
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technical assistance
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The process of providing recipients with expert assistance of specific health-related or administrative services that include systems review planning, policy options analysis, coordination, coalition building/training, data system development, needs assessment, performance indicators, health care reform wraparound services, CSHCN program development/evaluation, public health managed care quality standards development, public and private interagency integration, and identification of core public health issues.
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Title V
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In 1935, Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, which authorized the creation of the Maternal and Child Health Services programs, providing a foundation and structure for ensuring the health of mothers and children for more than 60 years. Title V is administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Source: MCHB, http://mchb.hrsa.gov)
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Title V Block Grants
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The Title V Block Grant Program has as a general purpose the improvement of the health of all mothers and children in the nation, in keeping with the national health objectives established by the Public Health Service Act for the year 2000. The Block Grant Program has three components: Formula Block Grants to 59 States and other political jurisdictions, Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS), and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) Grants. (Source: MCHB, http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/titlevgrants/)
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Title V Information System
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Title V Information System (TVIS) electronically captures data from annual Title V Block Grant applications and reports submitted by all 59 U.S. States, Territories, and Jurisdictions and provides information on key measures and indicators of maternal and child health (MCH) in the United States. (Source: MCHB, https://mchdata.hrsa.gov/tvisreports/)
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TVIS
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Please see "Title V Information System."
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weighted estimate
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Estimated number in population adjusted (weighted) to represent total population of children, 0 -17 years old, in the sampled area. (Source: BRFSS website, http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/)
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