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A Qualitative Study of Patient and Interprofessional Healthcare Team Member Experiences of Bedside Interdisciplinary
Katarzyna A Mastalerz1, Sarah R Jordan2, Susan C Connors3
1Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA. Katarzyna.Mastalerz@CUAnschutz.edu.
Background:
Patient and interprofessional healthcare team member experiences of bedside interdisciplinary rounds (BIDR) are generally positive. Overall, there is large heterogeneity in existing BIDR frameworks, and best practices have not been defined.
Objective:
Understand patients' and interprofessional healthcare team members' experiences of BIDR.
Setting:
Academic VA Medical Center (VAMC) with daily structured BIDR.
Participants:
Inpatients, nurses, pharmacists, and care coordinators who participated in BIDR.
Methods:
We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with study participants about their experiences with BIDR between January and June 2020. All interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. We used thematic analysis to identify key themes.
Results:
We interviewed 14 inpatients and 18 interprofessional healthcare team members, including nurses, pharmacists, and care coordinators. Patients participating in BIDR reported positive perceptions of being included in the discussion of their healthcare plans and increased trust in providers; patient discomfort resulted from physician use of technical language and from being presented with unclear, vague care plans. Interdisciplinary healthcare team members participating in BIDR reported an increased understanding, respect, and trust for other team members and improved patient care; challenges were posed by lack of supportive structural elements to interprofessional workflow and prolonged physician presentations.
Conclusions:
BIDR can build trust between patients and healthcare providers and within the interprofessional team by creating a setting where teamwork interactions can be observed. Based on our findings, we recommend trust-building practices for BIDR, which include sharing BIDR goals with patients, using patient-centered language, creating structures for interprofessional inclusion, defining team roles, using standardized communication, and addressing interprofessional inputs in real time.
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