Hospital and emergency department (ED) visits are measures of health and chronic disease control. Reducing hospital and ED use is a family‐centered goal and can lower health care spending. However, a key unknown is whether and how ambulatory care quality predicts ED and hospital utilization in children by underlying chronic illness. HIP Investigator, Dr. Ryan Coller et al. sought to identify associations between parent‐reported ambulatory care quality and pediatric ED or hospital visits and evaluated how these relationships vary among children with different levels of medical complexity.
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