1
40
1
-
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Citation List Month
December 2016 List
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Family Conferences In The Neonatal Icu: Observation Of Communication Dynamics And Contributions.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Subject
The topic of the resource
Communication; Critical Illness/psychology; Decision Making; Empathy; Female; Humans; Infant Newborn; Intensive Care Units Neonatal; Male; Parents/psychology; Professional-family Relations; Qualitative Research; Terminal Care/psychology
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Boss RD; Donohue PK; Larson SM; Arnold RM; Roter DL
Description
An account of the resource
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
Clinicians in the neonatal ICU must engage in clear and compassionate communication with families. Empirical, observational studies of neonatal ICU family conferences are needed to develop counseling best practices and to train clinicians in key communication skills. We devised a pilot study to record and analyze how interdisciplinary neonatal ICU clinicians and parents navigate difficult conversations during neonatal ICU family conferences.
DESIGN:
We prospectively identified and audiotaped a convenience sample of neonatal ICU family conferences about "difficult news." Conversations were analyzed using the Roter interaction analysis system, a quantitative tool for assessing content and quality of patient-provider communication.
SETTING:
An urban academic children's medical center with a 45-bed level IV neonatal ICU.
SUBJECTS:
Neonatal ICU parents and clinicians.
INTERVENTIONS:
None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:
We analyzed 19 family conferences that included 31 family members and 23 clinicians. The child's mother was included in all conferences, and a second parent, usually the father, was present in 13 conferences. All but one conference included multiple medical team members. On average, physicians contributed 65% of all dialogue, regardless of who else was present. Over half (56%) of this dialogue involved giving medical information; under 5% of clinician dialogue involved asking questions of the family, and families rarely (5% of dialogue) asked questions. Conversations were longer with the presence of nonphysician clinicians, but this did not increase the amount of dialogue about psychosocial information or increase parent dialogue.
CONCLUSIONS:
We collected a novel repository of audio-recorded neonatal ICU family meetings that offers insights into discussion content and process. These meetings were heavily focused on biomedical information even when interdisciplinary clinicians were present. Clinicians always talked more than parents, and no one asked many questions. Maximizing the participation of interdisciplinary clinicians in neonatal ICU family meetings may require explicit strategies. Methods to increase family engagement should be targeted.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000617
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).
2016
Arnold RM
Boss RD
Communication
Critical Illness/psychology
December 2016 List
Decision Making
Donohue PK
Empathy
Female
Humans
Infant Newborn
Intensive Care Units Neonatal
Larson SM
Male
Parents/psychology
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Professional-family Relations
Qualitative Research
Roter DL
Terminal Care/psychology