Even insured kids don’t get quality health care
Posted October 11th, 2007 by Tara Murray in Health Care PolicyUS Children get worse care than adults, and even white, middle-class children with health insurance often fail to get the recommended care, according to a new study by researchers at RAND, the University of Washington, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BusinessWeek).
Citation: Rita Mangione-Smith, Alison H. DeCristofaro, Claude M. Setodji, et al. (2007). The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine 357:1515-1523. (Available free online)
