A Resource Guide for Chapters, Building Local Capacity for Improvement click here
S Butts-Dion, V Crowe, S Birken, J Dolins, C Lannon. Cincinnati Children's Center for Health Care Quality. Partnerships for Quality. American Academy of Pediatrics.
This guide is built upon the four principles of raising awareness, building knowledge, building infrastructure and implementing improvements to improve the quality of care provided to children.
Measuring for Quality Improvement
AAP Policy Statement: Principles for the Development and Use of Quality Measures
Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management and Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine.
AAP, Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management (SCOQIM)
The SCOQIM was established in 2001 in response to the increasing national emphasis on quality in health care and serves as the Academy’s integrated voice for quality. The committee is comprised of pediatricians with expertise in quality improvement, health information technology and evidence-based medicine. Committee priority areas include quality measurement; patient safety; evidence-based guideline development and implementation; open access scheduling and other innovative practice models.
Quality Improvement Literature click here
Evidence-based literature, reports and other publications about the implementation science of quality improvement.
2007 Chapter Quality Improvement Needs Assessment
Summary of Needs Assessment Findings
Full Report of Needs Assessment Findings
Who’s doing what? A list of chapters involved in quality improvement click here
A list of quality improvement activities chapters are involved in.
Chapter QI Champions and Committee Chairs click here 
(AAP membership required)
Login using your AAP member ID and passcode to access a list of chapter QI champions and or QI committee chairs.
Chapter Spotlight click here
The Chapter QI Spotlight recognizes chapters that are making great strides in supporting their members in quality improvement and building infrastructure for QI work.
CAQI Listserv
The listserv is an e-mail list of leaders who are interested in sharing quality improvement successes and challenges. It provides and opportunity for chapters to learn from one another. To join please click here and type " Add to CAQI Listserv" in the subject line of the e-mail.
