Paper Info
Title
Development of a Technology-Supported, Lay Peer-to-Peer Family Engagement Consultation Service in a Pediatric Hospital.
Abstract
Patient and caregiver engagement in making decisions and taking actions to promote health are critically important for improving outcomes, enhancing healthcare experience satisfaction, and reducing costs. Patients and caregivers have a wealth of expertise in illness self-management and can aid others in attaining high levels of activation through peer-to-peer social support. We describe the development of a technology-supported, family engagement consultation service at Children's of Alabama that integrates parent volunteers as front-line, peer-to-peer support consultants with a multidisciplinary team of informatics professionals in the pediatric hospital setting. This service was adapted from an existing engagement consultation service with a traditional medical consultation model at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. The unique features of the new model are articulated, along with plans for a shared knowledge database of consumer health resources to meet needs. The layperson peer-to-peer design is highly innovative and relevant as healthcare transitions towards increasingly participatory and personalized medicine.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Medical education,Peer-to-peer,Psychology,Delegation (computing)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
2018
1942-597X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wayne H Liang100.68
Avi Madan-Swain200.34
Robert M Cronin3639.71
Gretchen Purcell Jackson4459.41