Background: Multidisciplinary rounds occurs in various formats. On our medical wards, centralized multidisciplinary team huddles are conducted daily to ensure the entire care team is engaged and contributing to care plan development. Often times this precludes bedside team rounds. Given the dynamic fluidity of an inpatient care plan and our desire to enhance patient and [...]

Background: Patient- and family- centered care (PFCC) is a key element of safe healthcare. Family-centered-rounds (FCR) incorporate PFCC into the daily workflow of children’s hospitals. This observational study assessed whether our rounds on the Baystate Children’s Hospital Infant’s and Children’s unit met key goals of FCR including providing medical information, engaging in open, bidirectional communication, [...]

Background: Many efforts to improve bed availability in hospitals with high occupancy focus on encouraging providers to discharge patients earlier in the day without making substantial changes to workflows or to address barriers to patient care progression. Unfortunately, when this is most needed is often when teams are at their busiest with high census and [...]