Background: Family centered rounds (FCR) is an important approach in patient care that allows for multi-disciplinary collaboration and active involvement of patients and families in shared medical decision making. FCR has been recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as a standard of care but the definition and implementation of FCR can be highly […]

Background: Family-centered rounds on our pediatric hospital medicine teaching service, which cares for patients in multiple units throughout the hospital, are often prolonged with unpredictable progression. This contributes to inconsistent nursing participation, inefficiencies in patient care, and variable end times. Through the implementation of scheduled-based rounding, our aims were to: 1) start 90% of rounds […]