Summary
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center created an initiative called the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Collaborative to work with local primary care physicians to standardize their management of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The collaborative aims to improve patient care and reduce unnecessary hospital referrals by providing physicians with strategies to implement evidence-based guidelines and an established algorithm to identify complicated cases for referral. An assessment of 19 practices found that participating physicians were more likely to adhere to key elements of the evidence-based guidelines and less likely to refer uncomplicated cases to the hospital.