title: Family-centered bedside rounds: a new approach to patient care and teaching.
abstract: The importance of patient-centered care and the role of families in decision-making are becoming more recognized. Starting with a single acute care unit, a multidisciplinary improvement team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital developed and implemented a new process that allows families to decide if they want to be part of attending-physician rounds. Family involvement seems to improve communication, shares decision-making, and offers new learning for residents and students. Despite initial concerns of staff members, family-centered rounds has been widely accepted and spread throughout the institution. Here we report our experiences as a potential model to improve family-centered care and teaching.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Services, Department of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA. stephen.muething@cchmc.org
authors.forename: Stephen E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Muething
authors.forename: Uma R
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Kotagal
authors.forename: Pamela J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Schoettker
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gonzalez del Rey
authors.forename: Thomas G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: DeWitt
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D017145:Models, Educational; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009820:Ohio; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care