title: Strategies to engage stakeholders in research to improve acute care delivery.
abstract: Many families involved in research are well versed in the care system due to chronic conditions. Engagement of families of children with serious acute illnesses is infrequent, and no studies have documented the feasibility or acceptability of different methods of family engagement. We describe a model used in the Hospital-to-Home Outcomes study, which utilized a novel approach of short-term focused engagement of families and other stakeholders to incorporate the unique viewpoints of families whose care experience is primarily focused around the period surrounding their child's hospitalization for acute illness.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Hadley S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Sauers-Ford
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Simmons
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Samir S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D005190:Family; D022143:Family Nursing / Q000379:methods; D005246:Feedback; D017144:Focus Groups; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012944:Social Support