Hospital pediatrics
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Hospital pediatrics · Nov 2018
Increasing Timely Family Meetings in Neonatal Intensive Care: A Quality Improvement Project.
Timely multidisciplinary family meetings (TMFMs) promote shared decision-making. Despite guidelines that recommend meetings for all patients with serious illness, our NICU TMFM rate was 10%. In this study, we aimed to document a meeting within 5 days of hospitalization for 50% of all new NICU patients hospitalized for ≥5 days within 1 year of introducing interventions. ⋯ An academic, quaternary-care NICU tripled TMFM documentation after introducing a multifaceted intervention. This improvement may represent changes in professionals' attitudes about providing and documenting family meetings.