Do you know that feeling when something is so good you want to bottle it? Sometimes it is an experience that you do not want to end, so bottling it would keep it going. Many times, the desire to bottle something up and keep it comes from a desire to capture how people interact—kindness, compassion, teamwork, etc. You want to bottle it, share it, and help to multiply. Pediatrics has done just that with its first-ever collection of Family Partnership articles that captures some of the best practices, strategies, ideas, and advancements in partnership between patients, families, and providers. It may not be a bottle, but this curated book of articles offers some of the best of the Family Partnership articles published in Pediatrics since this article type began in 2017.
How we interact with doctors and other members of the care team is key to our children’s health. Building relationships between each individual child, family, and doctor is the foundation of pediatrics. The articles in this half of the collection focus on how we can work together to improve communication to support children with disabilities and improve patient safety.
How we work with doctors and other professionals to study and improve the systems and services that care for our children is key to our children’s health as well. The articles that explore how we work to improve systems focus on topics in medical education, research, peer support, and improved access to programs. Additionally, this collection also includes plain language summaries that clearly and succinctly present the key strategies and lessons learned from articles on transition and delivering bad news.
What can you do with the Family Partnerships collection?
- If you want to improve how you work with your child’s doctor or any other member of the care team, share this collection with them. Ask to find time to talk about the articles.
- If you are involved in systems-level work, are a member of an advisory board, or want to become more involved in improving the systems of care, get this collection and share it. For example, if you’ve been asked to share your story on a panel for medical education, share the collection and ask to discuss the partnership in medical education article. Are you an advisor on a research project and want to do more? Share this collection and ask to talk about partnership in research. You can also share this link to all the Family Partnership articles with any of your team for more best practices on these and other areas of systems improvement work.
- Read and share the Family Connections with Pediatrics blogs for in-depth perspectives on published research articles from parents and caregivers navigating the health care system.
- The collection is available for purchase here.
