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High-quality health care matters for all children — and is critically important for some. In many ways, health care for children serves the same function as health care for adults. For example, the incidence of chronic illness in children is increasing, resulting in a substantial illness burden with a substantial cost.¹ How well chronic conditions are managed profoundly influences both short-term and long-term outcomes, not only for common diseases such as asthma but also for rarer conditions such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease.²

Many aspects of children's health care have no parallel in adult health services.³ The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School (J.M.P., C.J.H.); MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy (J.M.P.) — both in Boston; and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Cambridge, MA (C.J.H.).

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