Increasing Timely Family Meetings in Neonatal Intensive Care: A Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Timely multidisciplinary family meetings (TMFMs) promote shared decision-making. Despite guidelines that recommend meetings for all patients with serious illness, our NICU TMFM rate was 10%. In this study, we aimed to document a meeting within 5 days of hospitalization for 50% of all new NICU patients hospitalized for ≥5 days within 1 year of introducing interventions.

Methods

A multidisciplinary improvement team used the Model for Improvement to achieve the study aim by targeting key drivers of change. To make meetings easier, we introduced scheduling and documentation tools. To make meetings more customary, we provided education and reminders to professionals. We defined a TMFM as a documented discussion between a parent, a neonatologist, and a nonphysician prof

SUBMITTER: Sabnis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7104716 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature