Demographic Characteristics Among Members of Patient Family Advisory Councils at a Pediatric Health System.

Patient Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) are groups of patients, families, and clinical health system leaders collaborating to improve the quality, safety, and experience of care. Best practices encourage PFAC membership to reflect the diversity of the communities served. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from September 2019 to January 2020 collecting demographic characteristics of the members of a pediatric health system's 17 PFACs.

The effect of a patient- and family-centered care curriculum on pediatrics residents' patient-centeredness.

Background: Patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) approaches to care are important in enhancing the patient-centeredness of the health care experience, yet little is known about the effectiveness of formal approaches for teaching patient-centeredness in residency.

Intervention: We developed and implemented a PFCC curriculum and assessed its impact on residents' self-perceptions of patient-centered behavior and practices.

Methods: We used a quasi-experimental, nonrandomized approach with a pretest-posttest design.