Patient safety after implementation of a coproduced family centered communication programme: multicenter before and after intervention study

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether medical errors, family experience, and communication processes improved after implementation of an intervention to standardize the structure of healthcare provider-family communication on family centered rounds.

Design

Prospective, multicenter before and after intervention study.

Setting

Pediatric inpatient units in seven North American hospitals, 17 December 2014 to 3 January 2017.

Participants

All patients admitted to study units (3106 admissions, 13171 patient days); 2148 parents or caregivers, 435 nurses, 203 medical students, and 586 residents.

Intervention

Families, nurses, and physicians coproduced an intervention to standardize healthcare provider-family communication on ward rounds ("family centered rounds"), which

SUBMITTER: Khan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6278585 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature