Patient and Family Centered I-PASS (Family-Centered Communication Program to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Family Experience and Communication Processes) January 31, 2024

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/patient-and-family-centered-i-pass-family-centered-communication-program-reduce-medical Patient and Family Centered I-PASS (Family-Centered Communication Program to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Family Experience and Communication Processes) Medical errors (all errors in medicine), harmful errors (medical errors that specifically lead to patient harm), and adverse events (harms due to medical care) are leading causes of death and harm in patients in the hospital setting. Communication failures are a common root cause of sentinel events, which are the most serious harmful errors. Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital designed a prospective, multicenter before-and-after intervention study in which families, nurses, and physicians coproduced an intervention to standardize healthcare provider-family communication on ward rounds in hospitals. This approach is also known as family-centered rounds.