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Pediatric Ethics And Communication Excellence (peace) Rounds: Decreasing Moral Distress And Patient Length Of Stay In The Picu
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Hec Forum
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2016
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Health Care Delivery; Morality; Pediatrics; Intensive Care; Communication; Ethics Medical; Health Care Industry; Studies; Patient
Moral Distress; Ethics Intervention; Icu Length Of Stay; Clinical Ethics; Pediatrics
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Lucia Wocial; Veda Ackerman; Brian Leland; Brian Benneyworth; Vinit Patel; Yan Tong; Mara Nitu
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This paper describes a practice innovation: the addition of formal weekly discussions of patients with prolonged PICU stay to reduce healthcare providers’ moral distress and decrease length of stay for patients with life-threatening illnesses. We evaluated the innovation using a pre/post intervention design measuring provider moral distress and comparing patient outcomes using retrospective historical controls. Physicians and nurses on staff in our pediatric intensive care unit in a quaternary care children's hospital participated in the evaluation. There were 60 patients in the interventional group and 66 patients in the historical control group. We evaluated the impact of weekly meetings (PEACE rounds) to establish goals of care for patients with longer than 10 days length of stay in the ICU for a year. Moral distress was measured intermittently and reported moral distress thermometer (MDT) scores fluctuated. "Clinical situations" represented the most frequent contributing factor to moral distress. Post intervention, overall moral distress scores, measured on the moral distress scale revised (MDS-R), were lower for respondents in all categories (non-significant), and on three specific items (significant). Patient outcomes before and after PEACE intervention showed a statistically significant decrease in PRISM indexed LOS (4.94 control vs 3.37 PEACE, p = 0.015), a statistically significant increase in both code status changes DNR (11 % control, 28 % PEACE, p = 0.013), and in-hospital death (9 % control, 25 % PEACE, p = 0.015), with no change in patient 30 or 365 day mortality. The addition of a clinical ethicist and senior intensivist to weekly inter-professional team meetings facilitated difficult conversations regarding realistic goals of care. The study demonstrated that the PEACE intervention had a positive impact on some factors that contribute to moral distress and can shorten PICU length of stay for some patients.
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doi:10.1007/s10730-016-9313-0
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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
Brian Benneyworth
Brian Leland
Clinical Ethics
Communication
Ethics Intervention
Ethics Medical
Health Care Delivery
Health Care Industry
HEC Forum
Icu Length Of Stay
Intensive Care
Lucia Wocial
Mara Nitu
Moral Distress
Morality
November 2016 List
Patient
Pediatrics
Studies
Veda Ackerman
Vinit Patel
Yan Tong