The importance of patient-centered care and the role of families in decision-making are becoming more recognized. Starting with a single acute care unit, a multidisciplinary improvement team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital developed and implemented a new process that allows families to decide if they want to be part of attending-physician rounds. Family involvement seems to improve communicat...

THE MEDICAL HOME The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth, and adults.1 PCMH facilitates partnerships with individual patients, their personal physicians, and family. In pediatrics, PCMH is usually referred to as the Patient and Family Centered Medical Home, or just the Medical Home (MH). The MH was named over 40 years a...

Patient- and family-centered care is an approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of health care that is grounded in a mutually beneficial partnership among patients, families, and health care professionals. Providing patient- and family-centered care to children in the emergency department setting presents many opportunities and challenges. This revised technical report draws on previ...

T he 7th International Conference on Patientand Family-Centered Care was held July 25-27, 2016, in New York City. Attended by over 1,000 individuals representing some 348 institutions and organizations from across the United States and around the world, the conference included 120 presentations and 89 posters on topics of patientand family-centered care. A listing of all conference presentation...