Parent Perspectives on Sharing Pediatric Hospitalization Clinical Notes.

Background And Objectives: Federal guidelines mandate that hospitals provide patients and caregivers with free, online access to their physician's clinical notes. This study sought to identify parent perceptions of the benefits and challenges of real-time note access during their child's hospitalization and strategies to optimize note-sharing at the bedside.

Methods: This qualitative study was conducted with parents of children aged <12 years admitted to a pediatric hospitalist service in April 2019.

BedsideNotes: Sharing Physicians' Notes With Parents During Hospitalization.

Objectives: Physicians increasingly share ambulatory visit notes with patients to meet new federal requirements, and evidence suggests patient experiences improve without overburdening physicians. Whether sharing inpatient notes with parents of hospitalized children yields similar outcomes is unknown. In this pilot study, we evaluated parent and physician perceptions of sharing notes with parents during hospitalization.