Development and Testing of the

To develop and test quality indicators for assessing care in pediatric hospital settings for common respiratory illnesses.A sample of 2796 children discharged from the emergency department or inpatient setting at 1 of the 3 participating hospitals with a primary diagnosis of asthma, bronchiolitis, croup, or community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011.Three tertiary care children's hospitals in the United States.We developed evidence-based quality indicators for asthma, bronchiolitis, croup, and CAP. Expert panel-endorsed indicators were included in theCAP and croup condition-level PRIMES scores demonstrated significant between-hospital variations (PRIMES is a new set of measures available for assessing the quality of hospital-based care for common pediatric respiratory illnesses.