Hospitals hoping to better understand how to provide patient-centered care could learn some lessons from pediatric hospitals, according to an NEJM Catalyst article. That’s because what patients really need is family-centered care, the authors contend–and pediatric hospitals like Nemours Children’s Health System in Delaware, New Jersey, excel at it.
he article focuses on four lessons learned by clinicians at Nemours:
- Include families in rounds. Families are pulled into discussions about patients’ care plans, helping them “regain a sense of control by helping them participate in the child’s care at a level they choose,” wrote authors Thomas H. Lee, M.D., of Press Ganey Associates, Inc., and Paul Rosen, M.D., and James F. Burrows of Nemours.
