Promoting Pediatric Preventive Visits Through Quality Improvement Initiatives in the Primary Care Setting.

Objective: To evaluate whether quality improvement (QI) capacity-building in affiliated primary care practices could increase well care visit uptake.

Study Design: Partners For Kids (PFK) is an accountable care organization caring for pediatric Medicaid beneficiaries in Ohio. PFK QI specialists recruited practices to develop QI projects around increasing well care visit rates (proportion of eligible children with well care visits during calendar year) for children aged 3-6 years and adolescents.