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Barriers and facilitators to implementing a process to enable parent escalation of care for the deteriorating child in hospital.
August 22, 2018
Gill FJ, Leslie GD, Marshall AP. Health Expect. 2018;21(6):1095-1103.
Prior research has shown that parents can be valuable partners in safety, identifying adverse events and errors not captured by other means. Investigators studied the implementation of a parent escalation of care process, Calling for Help (C4H), in a pediatric hospital. Although there was support for the process among staff, barriers included a low level of parent awareness of the process and concerns about parents' abilities to accurately identify clinical concerns.
