Development and Validation of Quality Criteria for Providing Patient- and Family-centered Injury Care

Abstract

Fourteen-candidate quality criteria for patient- and family-centered injury care were developed and shown to have content validity. These may be used to guide quality improvement practices.

Morbidity

“…4 Contemporary trends such as patient- and family-centered care or cost may be may also be converted to morbidity indicators such as family and patient related changes in stress, mental health, financial status, and family functioning. 5 …”

Reconciling patient and provider priorities for improving the care of critically ill patients: A consensus method and qualitative analysis of decision making

“…It allows for similar concepts to be brought together. However, panellists’ must be cognizant to avoid developing a concept that is too broad or vague (ie, too many dimensions) and subsequently hard to act on . In a qualitative analysis of a consensus process to develop quality indicators of injury care, Bobrovitz et al.…”

“…We assembled a panel of nine individuals representing providers (n=3), decision makers (n=3) and patients’ families (n=3) from ICUs within a single geographically defined health‐care system (Alberta Health Services, Alberta, Canada) responsible for providing integrated health‐care services to a population of 4.2 million residents . We elected to comprise the panel equally of these three stakeholder groups given our perspective that each group is equally important for health‐care quality (delivering care, overseeing care delivery, receiving care) . Panellists were purposively nominated by the leadership of the health‐care system's Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network (CCSCN), a province‐wide network of critical care medicine stakeholders to ensure representation of different experiences, expertise and geographical locations (Table ) …”

“…26 We elected to comprise the panel equally of these three stakeholder groups given our perspective that each group is equally important for health-care quality (delivering care, overseeing care delivery, receiving care). 7,10 Panellists were purposively nominated by the leadership of the health-care system's Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network (CCSCN), a province-wide network of critical care medicine stakeholders to ensure representation of different experiences, expertise and geographical locations (Table S1). 9,27…”

“…6 High quality care needs to reflect both the clinical and holistic needs of patients. 7,8 To accomplish meaningful improvements in care, patients, their family members and members of the public need to be engaged in quality improvement initiatives. 9,10 Identifying priorities for quality improvement has not conventionally involved patients, but this has begun to change with the implementation of patient engagement research strategies in the United Kingdom, 11 United States 12 and Canada.…”