Addressing the Challenges of Reporting on Childhood Asthma in a Changing Health Care System: Building Better Evidence for High Performance

Researchers at The George Washington University Department of Health Policy conducted an exhaustive review of the nation's data collection framework for childhood asthma and identified both barriers and opportunities to improve the quality of care for children with asthma. In this brief, authors put forth recommendations for standardizing surveillance measures and expanding existing reporting functions and systems to improve data collection on children with asthma.