BACKGROUND Miscommunications lead to medical errors and suboptimal hospital experience. Parent-provider miscommunications are understudied. OBJECTIVES (1) Examine characteristics of parent-provider miscommunications about hospitalized children, (2) describe associations among parent-provider miscommunications, parent-reported errors, and hospital experience, and (3) compare parent and attendi...

The training of physicians in the past century was based primarily on responsibility and the chain-of-command. Those with the bulk of that responsibility in the fields of pediatrics and internal medicine were residents. Residents trained the medical students and supervised them carefully in caring for patients. Most attending physicians supervised their teams at arm's length, primarily serving ...

Background Residency stress has been shown to interfere with resident well-being and patient safety. We developed a survey research study designed to explore factors that may affect perception of a maladaptive response to stress. Methods A 16-item survey with 12 Likert-type perception items was designed to determine how often respondents agreed or disagreed with statements regarding the residen...

Introduction: Women physicians experience challenges in career advancement, work-life integration (WLI), and wellness. Participation (attending speaking) at academic conferences is one way for women to advance their careers, but barriers physical participation (travel, WLI) pose challenges. Virtual options may enhance advancement. In this pilot study, we explored physicians’ conference patterns...

OBJECTIVES In the context of serious or life-limiting illness, pediatric patients and their families are faced with difficult decisions surrounding appropriate resuscitation efforts in the event of a cardiopulmonary arrest. Code status orders are one way to inform end-of-life medical decision making. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the extent to which pediatric providers have knowl...

Introduction The US Preventive Services Task Force recommended annual lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for high-risk patients in December 2013. We compared lung cancer screening-related opinions and practices among attending and resident primary care physicians (PCPs). Methods In 2015, we conducted a 23-item survey among physicians at a large academic medical cen...

Previous studies have shown that the percentage of family physicians attending deliveries decreased steadily from 2000 to 2010.1,2 This decline occurred specifically in family physicians providing low-volume (one to 25 deliveries per year) and medium-volume (26 to 50 deliveries per year) obstetrics, whereas the percentage practicing highvolume obstetrics (more than 50 deliveries per year) remai...