Pediatric hospital medicine: A strategic planning roundtable to chart the future

Abstract

Given the growing field of Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) and the need to define strategic direction, the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association sponsored a roundtable to discuss the future of the field. Twenty‐one leaders were invited plus a facilitator utilizing established health care strategic planning methods. A “vision statement” was developed. Specific initiatives in 4 domains (clinical practice, quality of care, research, and workforce) were identified that would advance PHM with a plan to complete each initiative. Review of the current issues demonstrated gaps between the current state of affairs and the full vision of the potential impact of PHM. Clinical initiatives were to develop an educational plan supporting the PHM Core Competencies and a clinical practice monitoring dashboard template. Quality initiatives included an environmental assessment of PHM participation on key committees, societies, and agencies to ensure appropriate PHM representation. Three QI collaboratives are underway. A Research Leadership Task Force was created and the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network was refocused, defining a strategic framework for PRIS, and developing a funding strategy. Workforce initiatives were to develop a descriptive statement that can be used by any PHM physician, a communications tool describing “value added” of PHM; and a tool to assess career satisfaction among PHM physicians. We believe the Roundtable was successful in describing the current state of PHM and laying a course for the near future. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2012. © 2011 Society of Hospital Medicine

Pediatric Hospitalists Collaborate to Improve Timeliness of Discharge Communication

“…7 In 2009, the Pediatric Hospital Medi cine (PHM) Roundtable, a strategic planning retreat of PHM leadership, identifi ed the need for action in hospital-focused quality improvement (QI) and commissioned creation of a national multicenter collaborative to effect rapid and measurable improvements in care for hospitalized children. 11 The Value in Inpatient Pediatrics (VIP) Network, an inclusive and grassroots QI organization within PHM, houses the Transitions of Care Collaborative. This collaborative is focused on achieving measurable improvement in the communication of patient information from hospitalist to PCP at the time of discharge.…”

TXT@WORK: Pediatric Hospitalists and Text Messaging

“…31 This number rapidly increased in the last few years to 1,500-3,000. 32 Furthermore, in order to increase responses through shortened questionnaire length, demographic items were limited to sex and years in practice. With just a small portion of this population represented by our study and the fact that conclusions drawn from a convenience sample are limited, 21 it is difficult to evaluate the generalizability of conclusion from our data, and interpretations should be done with caution.…”

Development of the pediatric research in inpatient settings (PRIS) network: Lessons learned

“…15 This initiative, roughly a decade after the inception of the field, was critical to bringing pediatric hospitalist research and PRIS to the next level. It was recognized in that meeting that while PRIS had made a good start, it would not be possible to grow the network to the point of conducting top quality multicenter studies without the active involvement of a larger number of rigorously trained hospitalist researchers.…”