http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org • BACKGROUND Attempts to improve end-of-life care increasingly focus on family-centered care, but few validated assessment tools exist. • OBJECTIVES To evaluate 3 new short questionnaires measuring nurses’ perspectives on family-centered end-of-life care in the intensive care unit and to show the usefulness of the questionnaires. • METHODS Principal components analy...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate neonatal developmental care and family-centered care in a neonatal unit. METHODS Participatory action research with a purposive sample of health personnel and parents of hospitalized newborn in a Neonatal Unit in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Five focal groups were conducted with seven mothers and 40 professionals of the unit team, and additionally, 24 non-participant obser...

The study assessed sustainability of the Family Care Map, a family-centered approach to providing care for Veterans with polytrauma-related injuries, in four Department of Veterans Affairs Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers. We applied a mixed-methods approach. Staff surveys used standardized measures of sustainability, commitment to change, information, and participation during implementation. ...

The family as one of system support for schizophrenia treatment in the primary care setting has been a challenge integrating services into mental health. This study aimed to review urgent involvement during health using Family-Centered Care approach. A systematic was performed population, intervention, comparison, outcome, design (PICOS) framework within Scopus (27 articles), ProQuest (151 Scie...

The purpose of this training program was to prepare nursing staff in family-centered geriatric care that emphasizes providing culturally competent care to hospitalized elders at two major tertiary hospitals in New York. This research report corresponds to the first phase of a 3-year project. In this research project, a descriptive exploratory design was used to identify the levels of cultural a...

In light of the increasing emphasis on incorporation of patient-centered care techniques into health care services, we sought to explore the greatest impediments to and benefits from student engagement in patient-centered care. A secondary aim of this research was to explore possible improvements in the way patient-centered care is taught to medical students. Thirdyear medical students on famil...

Understanding a care coordination framework, its functions, and its effects on children and families is critical for patients and families themselves, as well as for pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists/ surgical specialists, and anyone providing services to children and families. Care coordination is an essential element of a transformed American health care delivery system that emp...

Understanding a care coordination framework, its functions, and its effects on children and families is critical for patients and families themselves, as well as for pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists/ surgical specialists, and anyone providing services to children and families. Care coordination is an essential element of a transformed American health care delivery system that emp...