Christopher J. Stille

TL;DR: The goal of coordination of medical care is to support patients and their families in their efforts to receive effective health care from an increasingly complex health care system.

TL;DR: Attention by public health and professional organizations and the news media to antibiotic resistance may have contributed to changes in diagnostic thresholds, resulting in more judicious prescribing.

TL;DR: Care-coordinated activity was assessed at the practice level, and the care-coordination measurement tool was used successfully during the operations of typical, pediatric, primary care settings.

TL;DR: Potential medication dosing errors occur frequently in outpatient pediatrics and studies on the clinical impact of these potential errors and effective error prevention strategies are needed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the patient-and practice system-level determinants of communication between primary care physicians and specialists for a cohort of children referred to specialty care, using multivariate logistic regression to determine associations between practice system and patient characteristics and dependent variable of reported primary care physician-specialist communication.