NCT02625142

Family-Centered Rounds Checklist Implementation

Engaging Families in Bedside Rounds to Promote Pediatric Patient Safety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 340 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to facilitate family engagement during bedside rounds at a children's hospital. The intervention consists of a "checklist" of key behaviors associated with the delivery of quality family-centered rounds, as well as training in the use of the checklist tool. In a pre-post controlled design, two hospital services will be randomized to use the checklist while two others will be randomized to usual care. The intervention is expected to increase to the performance of key checklist behaviors, family engagement, and family perceptions of patient safety.

Detailed description

Family engagement in children's healthcare encounters has been suggested as a means to improve safety. To engage families in care, the recommended practice is to conduct rounds at the child's bedside with the family present (family-centered rounds). Family-centered rounds strive to engage families in (1) a relationship with care providers, (2) exchange of information for decision making, and (3) deliberation about decisions. Bedside rounds represent a consistent venue to engage families in the care of hospitalized children, yet no studies have systematically identified and examined the barriers and facilitators of family engagement during rounds as a means to improve safety.

Conditions

• Child, Hospitalized
• Delivery of Health Care
• Morning Rounds

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Family-centered rounds checklist tool	A printed checklist containing 9 key tasks associated with effective delivery of family-centered rounds. A previously-identified member of each rounding team was responsible for holding the printed checklist during morning rounds. Team members were trained the in the use of this checklist prior to the post-intervention period, and a brief refresher training was conducted mid-way through the period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2015-12-09
• Last updated: 2019-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States