Before technologic advances in imaging, such as PET/ MRI and molecular imaging–guided oncologic treatment, changed the practice of radiology, before antibiotics and vaccines provided widespread pharmacologic means to treat and prevent disease, before antiseptic technique markedly reduced surgical death rates, our ability to minister to patients and their families was to listen, comfort, and sup...

Jaundice develops in most newborn infants and is one of the most common reasons infants are rehospitalized after birth. American Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guidelines strongly support the recommendation that clinicians promote and support breastfeeding. Recognizing that the disruptions associated with phototherapy interfere with breastfeeding, the challenge often faced by clinician...

The recent movement toward family-centered care, which has been propelled by the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Amendments of 1986, poses considerable challenges to professionals trained in client-centered models of service delivery. These challenges are compounded by the fact that our understanding of family-centered care lags considerably behind our attempts to i...

Families and their children with special healthcare needs require effective interventions to address children’s needs in the context of daily family interactions. This article offers a unique perspective to understanding the role of family-centered care. It extends beyond expected practice in service delivery to the role of families in the implementation of intervention research, specifically w...

In 2007, Muething et al1 developed the fi rst FCR model for improvement and described the role of FCRs in enhancing family-centered care, trainee education, and reducing discharge timeliness. Since then, many hospitalists programs have incorporated FCRs into their daily rounds, and by 2010, >44% of pediatric hospitalists reported conducting FCRs.2 Sisterhen et al3 defi ned FCRs as a model that ...

AIM The aim of this study is to explore the history of family-centered care (FCC). BACKGROUND FCC was developed after Word War II, when nursing, then deeply paternalistic, had become asynchronous with changing social expectations for the care of hospitalized children. METHODS This is a historical review of literature reflecting development of pediatric models of care using publications of c...

Much of the emphasis in the nation's system of child protection focuses on investigations to determine whether child abuse or neglect has occurred, and procedures for arranging out-of-home care for children who are not safe at home. Less attention often goes to the capacity of public and private agencies to provide services that help stressed families prevent child maltreatment before it begins...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES As part of our family medicine clerkship seminar on the patient-physician relationship, third-year students write about an illness episode within their own families. METHODS Using a grounded research approach, we examined 260 student narratives to extract the most significant meanings. RESULTS Significant themes that emerged include the role of family members in il...

Patient- and family-centered care is a model of providing care in which the patient and family are partners with the provider and care team. A resurgence of interest in patient- and family-centered care is due, in part, to increasing consumerism in health care and the linking of reimbursement to the patient experience. Individual radiologists, practices, enterprises, and radiology professional ...

BACKGROUND Treatment and rehabilitation interventions in juvenile justice institutions aim to prevent criminal reoffending by adolescents and to enhance their prospects of successful social reintegration. There is evidence that these goals are best achieved when the institution adopts a family-centered approach, involving the parents of the adolescents. The Academic Workplace Forensic Care for ...