Condition: Communication · Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
In 2014, a team of parents, nurses, and physicians created Patient and Family Centered I-PASS (PFC I-PASS), a bundle of communication interventions to improve the quality of information exchange between physicians, nurses, and families, and to better integrate families into all aspects of daily decision making in hospitals. PFC I-PASS changed how doctors and nurses talk to patients and families on rounds when they're admitted to the hospital. (Rounds are when a team of doctors visit patients every morning to do a checkup and make a plan for the day.) Rounds used to happen in a way that left out patients and families. Doctors talked at, not with patients, used big words and medical talk, and left nurses out. PFC I-PASS changed rounds by including families and nurses, using simple non-medical words, and talking in an organized way so nothing is left out. When PFC I-PASS was put in place in 7 hospitals, patients had fewer adverse events and better hospital experience. But it didn't focus on how to talk with patients with language barriers. This project builds upon upon PFC I-PASS to make it better and focus on the special needs of patients who speak languages other than English. This new intervention is known as PFC I-PASS+. PFC I-PASS+ includes all parts of PFC I-PASS plus having interpreters on and after rounds and training doctors about communication and cultural humility. The study team will now conduct a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of…
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Alisa Khan, MD, MPH · 617-355-2565 · alisa.khan@childrens.harvard.edu
Elizabeth Micolisin, BS · 617-355-6010 · elizabeth.micolisin@childrens.harvard.edu
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| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, Alabama, United States | Recruiting |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California, United States | Recruiting |
| UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital of Oakland | Oakland, California, United States | Recruiting |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center | Omaha, Nebraska, United States | Recruiting |
| Children's Hospital at Montefiore | The Bronx, New York, United States | Recruiting |
| The Research Institute of Nationwide Children's Hospital | Columbus, Ohio, United States | Recruiting |
| UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | Recruiting |
| Northwest Texas Healthcare System | Amarillo, Texas, United States | Recruiting |
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