Quality qualitative research for family-centered care

Patient- and family-centered care is a term that resonates in nearly all children ’s hospitals and has been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2011-3084). Although the Academy endorses the principle that “Pediatricians should advocate for and participate in research on outcomes and implementation of patient- and family-cent ered care in all venues of care,” such research is all too often undervalued or not undertaken. Sometimes outcomes are considered too hard to measure, and pediatricians, nurses, and hospital staff arbitrarily implement practices that “seem” family centered.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: The Editors' Perspectives Source Type: research