Using inpatient telehealth for family engagement: A mixed methods study of perceptions from patients, families, and care team providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Inpatient Telehealth Program permits family to remotely communicate with the patient and care team through secure, live video. We aimed to assess the implementation of this program for family engagement from the perspectives of patients, families, and providers.

Methods

We used a convergent mixed methods design. The quantitative component was a cross-sectional analysis of surveys assessing patient, family, and provider experience. The qualitative component used thematic analysis of patient, family, and provider interviews plus survey free text responses. We performed memo-writing and coding. We developed hypotheses about relationships among categories and identified analytic themes. We used data transformation and narrative discussion to report the integrated

SUBMITTER: Rosenthal JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11316967 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature