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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Nov 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialFactors associated with pediatric critical care attending follow-up with families after the death of a patient: a national survey with an experimental design.
- Santiago Borasino, Wynne E Morrison, Jordan Silberman, and Chris Feudtner.
- University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
- Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2011 Nov 1; 12 (6): 622-7.
ObjectivesTo evaluate components of the family-physician relationship that affect the likelihood of self-reported physician follow-up with bereaved families.DesignRandomized, split-sample, national survey.SubjectsTwo hundred four pediatric critical care attending physicians in the United States (54% response rate).Measurements And Main ResultsSubjects were randomly assigned to respond to differing versions of three clinical vignettes varying in each instance in: 1) the patient's length of stay in the intensive care unit; 2) the depiction of the degree of trust of the family toward medical staff; or 3) the depiction of the family's emotional reactions. Subjects then reported their likelihood of following-up with the family after the patient's death. Physicians were more likely to report they would contact families depicted as having a trusting relationship with staff (p = .01). Variations in depicted length of patient stay (p = .5) and in the nature of the family's emotional reaction (p = .9) were not associated with self-reported likelihood of follow-up (p = .5). The only difference observed regarding the method of contacting families after a death was that participants were more likely to say they would attend the funeral of the patient with a trustful family (p < .01).ConclusionsPediatric critical care attending physicians were more likely to report following-up with a bereaved family and attend a funeral in a vignette portraying a trustful relationship between the family and staff.
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