Enhancing Residents' Warmth in Greeting Caregivers: An Inpatient Intervention to Improve Family-Centered Communication.

Hospitals are increasingly motivated to improve the patient and family experience and increase patient satisfaction scores. The manner by which a provider greets patients and their families sets the tone for the hospital stay. This study aimed to improve residents' greetings of caregivers in the inpatient pediatric setting to improve family-centered communication.

Pediatric Residents' Sense of Meaning in Their Work: Is This Value Related to Higher Specialty Satisfaction and Reduced Burnout?

Objective: Physician wellness is frequently measured as the absence of burnout, rather than the perception of meaningful work. This study of pediatric residents aimed to test the hypothesis that their sense of meaning at work is associated positively with specialty satisfaction and negatively with burnout.

Methods: In June 2018, we surveyed residents at a large urban pediatrics program, using the Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI), the Global Specialty Satisfaction measure, and a single-item burnout measure.

Should We Call You Mom and Dad? Caregiver Preferences and Pediatric Physician and Nurse Manner in Greetings.

Objectives: In this study, we evaluated whether caregivers preferred to be called "Mom" and "Dad" or by name in the inpatient pediatric setting and how often caregivers reported that residents, attending physicians, and nurses greeted them as they preferred.

Methods: We measured caregivers' greeting preferences and perceptions of how residents, attending physicians, and nurses greeted them by surveying caregivers on 1 unit at a large urban children's hospital from October 2017 to April 2018. The 27-item survey consisted of multiple choice, Likert scale, and demographic measures.

The Pediatric Aerodigestive Center as a Tertiary Care-Based Medical Home: A Proposed Model.

Children with special healthcare needs have been identified nationally as a population whose health care is associated with unmet needs; increased morbidity; fragmentation of care and medical errors; caregiver dissatisfaction; and disproportionately high costs. A subset of these children are medically fragile, with medical complexity that requires a reliance on tertiary care-based services-including subspecialty appointments, surgical procedures, and care coordination resources. For medically complex patients affected by upper and lower respiratory tract and gastrointestinal disorders, multidisciplinary aerodigestive centers have emerged at tertiary care centers across the United States to facilitate coordinated, high-quality, and high value care.