{"id":43631,"date":"2018-12-06T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=43631"},"modified":"2018-12-11T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T08:45:21","slug":"in-clinical-practice-i-ensure-that-the-familys-voice-is-heard-first-and-last-and-in-their-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/12\/06\/in-clinical-practice-i-ensure-that-the-familys-voice-is-heard-first-and-last-and-in-their-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure that the family\u2019s voice is heard first and last, and in their own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was a third year medical student on my pediatric inpatient rotation, I thought I had mastered family centered rounds. I would stand in the patient\u2019s room, position myself in front of the patient and family, and present from my notes to the attending physician, occasionally glancing at the family. At the very end, I would turn to the family and say something along the lines of, \u201cAny questions, Ms. Lopez?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, I truly thought I was being family centered. After all, I had gathered the team in a roughly elliptical formation around the family and was directing my words in their general direction. In addition, I was sharing with the team what the family had me told only an hour earlier when I met with them alone during pre-rounds. However, in reality, I was speaking \u201cat\u201d rather than with the family. I was using medical jargon that they (and often I) did not really understand. I was not truly involving them until the end, and then only fleetingly so. Essentially, I was performing for my colleagues in front of the family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was not until years later, when I was a pediatric hospital medicine and health services research fellow with a research interest in family centered care, that I realized how flawed my model of family centered care was. Well into my fellowship research project to improve nighttime communication between families and providers,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I presented the project to our hospital\u2019s Family Advisory Committee. [1] I had made several efforts to enlist family partners in the project early on; that is, I had met with them once and shared my survey instruments with them for feedback. However, I had not truly developed the intervention with them. When I described the intervention to the rest of the Family Advisory Council, they told me, \u201cWell you are basically talking at us and only involving us in the end. That\u2019s not really very family centered.\u201d Their words were a wakeup call for me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was four years ago. Since that time, I have led a number of projects aimed at improving family centered care. Most notably, I served as the Project Leader for the PCORI-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/363\/bmj.k4764\">Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Study<\/a>. In this project, a group of families, nurses, physicians, health literacy experts, medical educators, and researchers co-produced an intervention to improve communication between healthcare providers and hospitalized patients and families on rounds and beyond. After putting this intervention into place, harmful medical errors decreased by 38% and aspects of family experience and communication processes improved. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my role as project leader, I have had the privilege of learning from these collaborators and applying these lessons to my clinical practice and research. I have come to realize that the existing models are not enough. In the US, family centered rounds are increasingly common, at least in pediatrics. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> However, the quality of family centered rounds is unknown and there is great variation between providers, units, and hospitals. I have learned that what I thought was family centered in medical school, residency, and even fellowship, was not really so family centered after all. And I have learned that this is true in both clinical practice and research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be truly family centered, we need to teach our trainees how to incorporate health literacy best practices into clinical care and research\u2014best practices such as health literacy universal precautions, including \u201cteach back.\u201d [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4,5]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We also need to include the value of co-production<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in both clinical practice and research. [6]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Families never cease to impress me with their insights, both on the wards (for instance when it comes to recognizing errors<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and in research (for instance, when they point out that all families may not understand the term \u201csafety\u201d in the same manner). [7,8] Now, when I design a study, I ensure that families are involved from the start and throughout, not merely after I have finished designing a study instrument. On rounds, I ensure that the family\u2019s voice is heard first and last, and in their own words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/alisa_khan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43632\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/alisa_khan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/alisa_khan.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/alisa_khan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Alisa Khan<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and an instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on family engagement in hospital communication and safety.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Competing interests<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/363\/bmj.k4764\">See research paper<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>References:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan A, Baird J, Rogers J <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Parent and provider experience and shared understanding after a family-centered nighttime communication intervention. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acad Pediatr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2017; <\/span><b>17<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 389\u2013402.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan A, Spector N, Baird J<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> et al. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient safety after implementation of a coproduced family centered communication programme: multicenter before and after intervention study. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMJ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2018; <\/span><b>363<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: k4764.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mittal VS, Sigrest T, Ottolini MC <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Family-Centered Rounds on Pediatric Wards: A PRIS Network Survey of US and Canadian Hospitalist. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pediatrics <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2010; <\/span><b>126: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">37-43.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Rockville, MD, 2015http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov (accessed 3 Dec2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Joint Commission. \u2018What Did the Doctor Say?\u2019 Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety. The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 2007 https:\/\/www.jointcommission.org\/assets\/1\/18\/improving_health_literacy.pdf (accessed 3 Dec 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Batalden M, Batalden P, Margolis P <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Coproduction of healthcare service. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMJ Qual Saf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2016; <\/span><b>25<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 509\u2013517.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan A, Furtak SL, Melvin P, Rogers JE, Schuster MA, Landrigan CP. Parent-reported errors and adverse events in hospitalized children. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JAMA Pediatr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2016; <\/span><b>170<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: e154608.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan A, Coffey M, Litterer KP <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JAMA Pediatr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2017; <\/span><b>171<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 372\u2013381.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a third year medical student on my pediatric inpatient rotation, I thought I had mastered family centered rounds. 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