Pediatric Collections: Family Partnerships eBook

Pediatric Collections offers what you need to know - original, focused research in a snapshot approach.

Patients and their families play a crucial role as partners in ensuring quality and safety across various aspects of healthcare, including direct care, quality enhancement, safety initiatives, professional education, research, facility planning, and policy development. This new collection focuses on the partnerships between families, patients, and clinicians to improve patient experience. This collection includes eight full-length articles on Individual-level Partnerships (Recognize and Support Caregiving Youth in Your Care; Improving Diagnostic Safety; Communication Strategies for Patients Who Are Nonverbal; and Contextualizing Future Health: A Parent and Resident Discuss Down Syndrome) and Systems-level Partnerships (Building Community With Assistive Technology; Codeveloped Family-Faculty Curriculum to Improve Trainee Communication; Family Caregiver Partnerships in Palliative Care Research Design and Implementation; and Community-Informed Peer Support for Parents of Gender-Diverse Youth).

Also included are a specially crafted infographic, two plain language summaries distilling the key takeaways from additional articles, and a resource list for families looking to get more involved.