NCT01371864

Families and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Multidisciplinary Teams: How Well Do We Communicate

Families and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Multidisciplinary Teams: How Well Do We Communicate?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purpose: -To evaluate the peri-operative communication between families and the pediatric cardiac surgery team. Method: -In this study the investigators plan to utilize structured interview and survey of parents/legal guardians and health care providers of children undergoing cardiac surgery in the United States of America.

Detailed description

Every day clinicians face challenges when attempting to negotiate their way through dialogues with families whose children require surgical intervention in the near future. The area of clinician-patient communication with pediatric families is under-researched and highlights a pressing clinical problem. There are several adult studies that describe the content and nature of patient-physician communications at the time of cardiac surgery. However, there are no studies that evaluate the communications between nursing, physicians, and pediatric patient's families at the time of cardiac surgery. Further knowledge in this area is valuable in that a disparity between the these groups can lead to medical error, damage the clinician-patient relationship and provide grounds for dissatisfaction, complaints, or claim. This research will provide insight into what patient's families value in their communications with the medical team and assist the medical community in better meeting our children's families needs.

Conditions

• Communication

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-13
• Last updated: 2017-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States