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Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Ensuring hospital-based Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) include members from diverse, vulnerable and underrepresented communities is important to ensure that all voices are represented and heard when providing input into hospital quality improvement and research efforts. However, ensuring diverse membership of PFACs remains a challenge. This study aims to describe strategies to recruit […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Ensuring hospital-based Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) include members from diverse, vulnerable and underrepresented communities is important to ensure that all voices are represented and heard when providing input into hospital quality improvement and research efforts. However, ensuring diverse membership of PFACs remains a challenge. This study aims to describe strategies to recruit […]
Abstract Number: 1
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Patient and family experience have become increasingly important to the hospital community, whereby exceptional patient and family experience is the common ground for all six aims of quality care as defined by the Institute of Medicine in Crossing the Quality Chasm — care that is patient centered, safe, effective, timely, efficient, and equitable (1). […]
Abstract Number: 3
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Interdisciplinary clinical rounds at the bedside can promote the core principles of patient- and family-centered care, including promoting respect and dignity, information sharing, and participation by the patient in the care and decision making. However, despite rounding at the bedside, the patient can still be a bystander as the team presents a care plan […]
Abstract Number: 17
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Hospitalists frequently lead family meetings with patients and family members. Shared decision making employed during family meetings is believed to foster mutual understanding of its participants, including understanding of prognosis. However, this assumption has not been empirically assessed. Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of data from a trial of a decision support tool […]
Abstract Number: 23
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Elderly inpatients often require the support of family and informal caregivers at transitions and yet adequacy of communication between hospital physicians and members of the patient’s social support is poorly studied. Methods: Mixed methodology survey of patients, their preferred social support member, and physicians as part of a communication quality improvement initiative on the […]
Abstract Number: 23
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for family medicine permit wide variability in adult inpatient medicine curricula. Family physicians compose a significant percentage of the hospitalist workforce, and the American Board of Family Medicine co-sponsors the Recognition of Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. Previously published survey data describe certain residency characteristics […]
Abstract Number: 24
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Family members often play a significant role in the care of geriatric patients during and after hospitalization. Both patients and families have expectations for communication with the provider team in the acute setting, but navigating the flow of medical information across the family unit is challenging with current care models. Pediatric medicine recognizes that […]
Abstract Number: 30
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Internal medicine residents face multiple barriers to participating in and documenting goals of care (GOC) meetings in the intensive care unit (ICU). Barriers include heavy workloads, need for urgent stabilization of critically ill patients, and inadequate communication skills training. Guidelines recommend regularly conducting and documenting GOC meetings for critically ill patients, to facilitate communication […]
Abstract Number: 55
SHM Converge 2023
Background: As medical complexity of pediatric patients rises, inpatient family care conferences (FCCs) are increasingly utilized to discuss treatment decisions and goals of care with families and multiple care team members. Studies have shown that emotional connections with providers at a FCC increase family satisfaction with these conferences. Proposals for structuring FCCs suggest involvement of […]