Background: Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successful clinical interventions to control blood pressure in the hypertensive population). Our aim was to quantify the contributions of these two phenomena to the worldwide trends in the prevalence of raised blood press...
Importance The quality of routine care for children is rarely assessed, and then usually in single settings or for single clinical conditions. Objective To estimate the quality of health care for children in Australia in inpatient and ambulatory health care settings. Design, Setting, and Participants Multistage stratified sample with medical record review to assess adherence with quality indicators extracted from clinical practice guidelines for 17 common, high-burden clinical conditions (noncom...