Design and Implementation of the Pediatric Quality Measures Program 2.0.

The Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) was established in response to the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, aiming to measure and improve health care quality and outcomes for the nation's children. This brief report describes the PQMP 2.0 and its components.

Weight Status Measures Collected in the Healthy Communities Study: Protocols and Analyses.

The Healthy Communities Study is one of the largest studies to assess the relationship between characteristics of community programs and policies to prevent childhood obesity and obesity-related outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to describe the protocol that was developed for collecting the anthropometric data for the study and the procedures for analyzing the data. Data were collected from 2013 to 2015 and analyses will be completed by mid-2016.