A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Review of Longitudinal Qualitative Research in Gerontology.

Background And Objectives: Gerontologists have long been interested in longitudinal qualitative research (LQR), yet ambiguity remains about best practices. The purpose of this review was to conduct a qualitative evidence synthesis to identify strengths and limitations in existing gerontological LQR.

Research Design And Methods: We searched for studies published in English before September 2017, using longitudinal qualitative methods and focusing on gerontology.

Treatment Collaboration When the Stakes Are High: Ethnographically Studying Family-Centered Care in an Outpatient Pediatric Specialty Clinic.

Family-centered care (FCC) is vital for children with special health-care needs and serious chronic illnesses. Family-clinician collaboration and partnership formation are key FCC elements associated with improved health outcomes. However, FCC implementation barriers persist.

Teaching About Better Family-Clinician Partnerships in High-Risk Pediatric Asthma Care.

Family-clinician partnership including communication, trust, respect, and power leveling is essential in pediatrics. Our case study illustrates elements supporting/hindering partnership in a high-risk urban pediatric asthma clinic. Data from observation of a 100-minute visit were qualitatively analyzed by applying codes to themes, using family-centered principles.

Pursuing a Desired Future: Continuity and Change in a Long-Term-Care Community.

New ways of planning, assessing, and measuring cultural change are needed in long-term care. Much effort is focused on person-centered care; less attention is paid to achieving localized change. Long-term-care communities need innovative approaches for identifying local cultural features to preserve and others to reconfigure.

Conceptual and design issues in instrument development for research with bereaved parents.

Many childhood deaths in the United States occur in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and parents have special needs in this death context. As an interdisciplinary research team, we discuss conceptual and design issues encountered in creating a new instrument, the Bereaved Parent Needs Assessment-PICU, for assessing parents' needs in this setting. Using a qualitative approach, our team previously explored how the culture and related ways of providing care in one urban Midwestern children's hospital PICU affected parents' bereavement needs and experiences.