After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans across the country, including children, had substantial symptoms of stress. Even clinicians who practice in regions that are far from the recent attacks should be prepared to assist people with trauma-related symptoms of stress.

A function-based targeting system effectively and efficiently identifies older people at risk of functional decline and death. Self-reported diagnoses and conditions, when added to the system, do not enhance predictive ability. The function-based targeting system relies on self-report and is easily transported across care settings.

More than 2 decades have passed since the end of the Cambodian civil war and the subsequent resettlement of refugees in the United States; however, this population continues to have high rates of psychiatric disorders associated with trauma.

Patient care experience surveys evaluate the degree to which care is patient-centered. This article reviews the literature on the association between patient experiences and other measures of health care quality. Research indicates that better patient care experiences are associated with higher levels of adherence to recommended prevention and treatment processes, better clinical outcomes, better patient safety within hospitals, and less health care utilization. Patient experience measures that are collected using psychometrically sound instruments, employing recommended sample sizes and adjustment procedures, and implemented according to standard protocols are intrinsically meaningful and are appropriate complements for clinical process and outcome measures in public reporting and pay-for-performance programs.

N THE LAST DECADE, THERE HAS BEEN heightened awareness of the extent to which children personally witness or experience violence. [1][2][3] Public health officials have responded by identifying violence as one of the most significant US public health issues. [4][5][6] Large numbers of US children experience such violence, and an even greater number may experience symptoms of distress after personally witnessing violence directed at others. 2,7-9 For many children, personally experiencing or directly witnessing multiple incidents of violence is the norm. 3,10,11 Violence affects all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, but its burden falls disproportionately on urban, 5,12 poor, and minority populations. 13,14 Several studies have found that the majority of children exposed to violence, defined as personally witnessing or directly experiencing a violent event, display symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 15,16 and a substantial minority develop clinically significant PTSD. [17][18][19] However, the harmful effects of violence extend beyond symptoms of PTSD. Exposure to violence is associated with depression 20 and behav-Author Affilations are listed at the end of this article.