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McKnight L, Schultz A, Vidic N, Palmer EE, Jaffe A. Learning to make a difference for chILD: Value creation through network collaboration and team science. Pediatr Pulmonol 2024; 59:2257-2266. [PMID: 36855907 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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Addressing the recognized challenges and inequalities in providing high quality healthcare for rare diseases such as children's interstitial lung disease (chILD) requires collaboration across institutional, geographical, discipline, and system boundaries. The Children's Interstitial Lung Disease Respiratory Network of Australia and New Zealand (chILDRANZ) is an example of a clinical network that brings together multidisciplinary health professionals for collaboration, peer learning, and advocacy with the goal of improving the diagnosis and management of this group of rare and ultra-rare conditions. This narrative review explores the multifaceted benefits arising from social learning spaces within rare disease clinical networks by applying the value creation framework. The operation of the chILDRANZ network is used as an example across the framework to highlight how value is generated, realized, and transferred within such collaborative clinical and research networks. The community of practice formed in the chILDRANZ multidisciplinary meetings provides a strong example of social learning that engages with the uncertainty inherent in rare disease diagnosis and management and pays attention to generate new knowledge and best practice to make a difference for children and families living with chILD. This review underscores international calls for further investment in, and support of, collaborative clinical networks and virtual centers of excellence for rare disease.
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- Lauren McKnight
- Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
- Centre for Clinical Genetics, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
- Respiratory Department, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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Weppner WG, Singh MK, Wipf JE, Shunk R, Woodard L, Brienza R. Culture change and lessons learned from ten years in the VA centers of excellence in primary care education. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024; 24:457. [PMID: 38671440 PMCID: PMC11047004 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05390-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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BACKGROUND Team-based care is critical to achieving health care value while maximizing patient outcomes. Few descriptions exist of graduate-level team training interventions and practice models. Experience from the multisite, decade-long Veterans Affairs (VA) Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education provides lessons for developing internal medicine training experiences in interprofessional clinical learning environments. METHODS A review of multisite demonstration project transforming traditional silo-model training to interprofessional team-based primary care. Using iterative quality improvement approaches, sites evaluated curricula with learner, faculty and staff feedback. Learner- and patient-level outcomes and organizational culture change were examined using mixed methods, within and across sites. Participants included more than 1600 internal medicine, nurse practitioner, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, social work and physical therapy trainees. This took place in seven academic university-affiliated VA primary care clinics with patient centered medical home design RESULTS: Each site developed innovative design and curricula using common competencies of shared decision making, sustained relationships, performance improvement and interprofessional collaboration. Educational strategies included integrated didactics, workplace collaboration and reflection. Sites shared implementation best practices and outcomes. Cross-site evaluations of the impacts of these educational strategies indicated improvements in trainee clinical knowledge, team-based approaches to care and interest in primary care careers. Improved patient outcomes were seen in the quality of chronic disease management, reduction in polypharmacy, and reduced emergency department and hospitalizations. Evaluations of the culture of training environments demonstrated incorporation and persistence of interprofessional learning and collaboration. CONCLUSIONS Aligning education and practice goals with cross-site collaboration created a robust interprofessional learning environment. Improved trainee/staff satisfaction and better patient care metrics supports use of this model to transform ambulatory care training. TRIAL REGISTRATION This evaluation was categorized as an operation improvement activity by the Office of Academic Affairs based on Veterans Health Administration Handbook 1058.05, in which information generated is used for business operations and quality improvement (Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations Part 16 (38 CFR 16.102(l)). The overall project was subject to administrative oversight rather Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, as such informed consent was waived as part of the project implementation and evaluation.
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- William G Weppner
- Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
- School of Medicine, University of Washington, Boise VAMC, MSO-111, 500 W. Fort St, 83702; 208.695.0454, Boise, ID, USA.
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- Primary Care Service, VA Northeast Ohio Health Care System, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, West Haven, CT, USA
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Deschenes S, Kunyk D, Scott SD. Developing an evidence-and ethics-informed intervention for moral distress. Nurs Ethics 2024:9697330241241772. [PMID: 38518739 DOI: 10.1177/09697330241241772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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The global pandemic has intensified the risk of moral distress due to increased demands on already limited human resources and uncertainty of the pandemic's trajectory. Nurses commonly experience moral distress: a conflict between the morally correct action and what they are required or capable of doing. Effective moral distress interventions are rare. For this reason, our team conducted a multi-phase research study to develop a moral distress intervention for pediatric critical care nurses. In this article, we discuss our multi-phase approach to develop a moral distress intervention-proactive, interdisciplinary meeting. Our proposed intervention is a sequential compilation of empirical work couched within a relational ethics lens thus should point to enhanced potential for intervention effectiveness.
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Papermaster AE, Whitney M, Vinas EK. Interprofessional Case Conference Enhances Group Learning and the Quality, Safety, Value, and Equity of Team-Based Care. THE JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS 2023; 43:4-11. [PMID: 36849427 DOI: 10.1097/ceh.0000000000000485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Patients seeking treatment for complex conditions require coordinated care from interprofessional clinicians. Collaborative engagement in an interprofessional community of practice is crucial to the collective competence of a team and the provision of high-quality, safe health care leading to improved patient outcomes. The objective of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to describe interprofessional communication, coordination, and collaboration of participants in an integrated practice unit that was structured to include weekly case conferences as part of routine practice. METHODS Data were collected from October 2019 to February 2020. Web-based surveys were administered to a convenience sample that included 33 questions and followed the CHERRIES checklist for reporting results. Items focused on team knowledge, impact on patient care, and communication, and conference focus and effectiveness. Descriptive and survey item analysis included frequency, percentage, means and standard deviation, Chi-square, and Pearson correlation analysis. Patient outcome data were collected via a Patient Global Impression of Improvement scale and were analyzed using a paired sample t test. RESULTS Survey respondents (n = 161) included clinicians and administrative staff. Results demonstrated that interprofessional case conferences improved the collective competence of the team, including team knowledge and communication. Participants viewed case conferences as a means to enhance care delivery quality, value, safety, and equity. In the study period, there was also a statistically significant improvement between the patient's first follow-up and last visits. CONCLUSION Survey respondents indicated that case conferences were an effective means to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care through interprofessional collaboration and education.
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- Amy E Papermaster
- Dr. Papermaster: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Health, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Dr. Whitney: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Health, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Ms. Vinas: Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of Education, Department of Women's Health, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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Barrett K, Rabaey P, Biggs J, Plumer D, Opokua S, Yates N, Hearst MO. Development and evaluation of an interprofessional community health course in Zambia. J Interprof Care 2022; 35:17-25. [DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2021.1985984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Gupta B, Li D, Dong P, Acri MC. From intention to action: A systematic literature review of provider behaviour change-focused interventions in physical health and behavioural health settings. J Eval Clin Pract 2021; 27:1429-1445. [PMID: 33565177 DOI: 10.1111/jep.13547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES It is clear there are significant delays in the uptake of best practices as part of routine care in the healthcare system, yet there is conflicting evidence on how to specifically align provider behaviour with best practices. METHOD We conducted a review of interventions utilized to change any aspect of provider behaviour. To extend prior research, studies were included in the present review if they had an active intervention targeting behaviour change of providers in health or behavioural-health settings and were published between 2001 and 2020. RESULTS Of 1547 studies, 44 met inclusion criteria. Of 44 studies identified, 28 studies utilized contextually relevant interventions (eg, tailored to a specific provider population). Twenty six interventions with a contextually relevant approach resulted in provider behaviour change. CONCLUSIONS Findings are promising for encouraging provider behaviour change when interventions are tailored to be contextually relevant, as both single-component and multifaceted interventions were successful when they were contextually relevant. It is critical to conduct additional research to ensure that providers sustain behaviour changes over a long-term beyond an intervention's implementation and evaluation period.
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- Brinda Gupta
- Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Maehder K, Werner S, Weigel A, Löwe B, Heddaeus D, Härter M, von dem Knesebeck O. How do care providers evaluate collaboration? - qualitative process evaluation of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of collaborative and stepped care for patients with mental disorders. BMC Psychiatry 2021; 21:296. [PMID: 34098913 PMCID: PMC8184353 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-021-03274-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Collaborative and stepped care (CSC) models are recommended for mental disorders. Their successful implementation depends on effective collaboration between involved care providers from primary and specialist care. To gain insights into the collaboration experiences of care providers in CSC against the backdrop of usual mental health care, a qualitative process evaluation was realized as part of a cluster-randomized controlled trial (COMET) of a collaborative and stepped care model in Hamburg (Germany). METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with N = 24 care providers from primary and specialist care (outpatient psychotherapists and psychiatrists, inpatient/ day clinic mental health providers) within and outside of COMET at the trial's beginning and 12 months later. Interviews were analyzed applying a qualitative structuring content analysis approach, combining deductive and inductive category development. RESULTS Usual mental health care was considered deficient in resources, with collaboration being scarce and mainly taking place in small informal networks. Within the COMET trial, quicker referral paths were welcomed, as were quarterly COMET network meetings which provided room for exchange and fostered mutual understanding. Yet, also in COMET, collaboration remained difficult due to communication problems, the unfavorable regional distribution of the COMET care providers and interprofessional discrepancies regarding each profession's role, competencies and mutual esteem. Ideas for improvement included more localized networks, the inclusion of further professions and the overall amelioration of mental health care regarding resources and remuneration, especially for collaborative activities. CONCLUSIONS The process evaluation of the COMET trial revealed the benefits of creating room for interprofessional encounter to foster collaborative care. Despite the benefits of faster patient referrals, the COMET network did not fulfill all care providers' prior expectations. A focus should be set on interprofessional competencies, mutual perception and role clarification, as these have been revealed as significant barriers to collaboration within CSC models such as COMET. TRIAL REGISTRATION The COMET trial (Collaborative and Stepped Care in Mental Health by Overcoming Treatment Sector Barriers) has been registered on July 24, 2017 under the trial registration number NCT03226743 .
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- Kerstin Maehder
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Institute of Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Institute of Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Lamparyk K, Williams AM, Robiner WN, Bruschwein HM, Ward WL. Interprofessional Education: Current State in Psychology Training. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 2021; 29:20-30. [PMID: 33689102 DOI: 10.1007/s10880-021-09765-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Healthcare reform has led to the consideration of interprofessional team-based, collaborative care as a way to provide comprehensive, high-quality care to patients and families. Interprofessional education is the mechanism by which the next generation health professional workforce is preparing for the future of health care-team-based, collaborative care. This literature review explored the extent and content of published studies documenting Interprofessional Education (IPE) activities with psychology trainees across learner level. A systematic review following PRISMA guidelines was conducted of studies describing IPE involving psychology learners. Electronic databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsychINFO, and EMBASE) were searched for the following terms: inter/multi-professional education/practice, inter/multidisciplinary education/practice, and psychology/psychologists. Thirty-seven articles were identified that included psychology in clinical outcome studies or other reviews of interprofessional education initiatives. The review addresses the nature of current IPE learning activities, the impact of IPE activities on participating trainees, opportunities for, and challenges of, involving psychology trainees in IPE, and future directions for research. This review illuminates the relative paucity of the literature about IPE in psychology training. Given the trend toward increasing team-based collaborative care, the limited inclusion of psychology in the IPE literature is concerning. The next generation of health professional trainees is learning about, from, and with each other with the objective of building collaboration and teamwork. Given the few articles documenting psychology trainees' involvement in IPE, future health professionals quite possibly will have limited understanding of, and contact with, psychologists. Our findings are a call to action for greater psychology involvement in IPE.
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- Katherine Lamparyk
- Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, 9500 Euclid Avenue/R3, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
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- College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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Posenau A, Handgraaf M. Framework for interprofessional case conferences - empirically sound and competence-oriented communication concept for interprofessional teaching. GMS JOURNAL FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION 2021; 38:Doc65. [PMID: 33824901 PMCID: PMC7994863 DOI: 10.3205/zma001461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Aims/objectives: Interprofessional case conferences support future team-based approaches to healthcare, and inevitably require targeted communication between the various participants. However, the success of communication during a case conference must be learnt explicitly. The subject of conversation is often the only outcome of the case conference that is discussed in plenary or small groups. Communication processes are hardly taken into account. However, integrating process orientation and making communication relevant to goal achievement is mandatory in order to teach in a competence-oriented fashion in this area. The aim of this article is to present an empirically sound framework for teaching case conferences, with the help of which conversation processes can be practiced, evaluated and analysed in interprofessional case conferences. Methodology: With the aid of literature analysis, insights from empirical conversation research and the International Classification of Functioning and Health (ICF), we have developed an empirically and theoretically sound framework for interprofessional case conferences. This is intended to support the training of communication skills and to serve as a basis for assessing them. Results: In practice, it has been shown that embedding case conferences in higher education curricula is feasible and effective for a group size of 200 students. The framework has proven itself in verbal training while aligning itself with concepts of sharing for the negotiation of leadership, goals and decisions. In addition, it could also be used as a theoretical construct for the "interprofessional objective structured clinical examination" (iOSCE) at graduation from the module "Interprofessional Case Conference" at the Hochschule für Gesundheit. Conclusion: The topics of interprofessional practice (IPP) and communication are now the subject of curricula in the health professions, both nationally and internationally. In addition, various competence settings are available that can support didactic orientation. However, the authors believe that there are no concrete imperatives for competence-oriented implementation in teaching and examination. In the area of communication teaching, one can integrate empirically sound concepts instead of induction into degree course for the health professions, in order to provide a basis for the further development of communicative competence in this field.
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- André Posenau
- Hsg Bochum – Hochschule für Gesundheit, Bochum, Germany
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Fujino H, Matsumura T, Saito T, Fujimura H, Imura O. Psychological Case Conference Following the Death of a Patient With Neuromuscular Disease: A Source of Emotional Support for Participating Medical Staff. J Patient Exp 2020; 7:713-716. [PMID: 33294606 PMCID: PMC7705834 DOI: 10.1177/2374373519892413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Healthcare professionals involved in the treatment and care of patients with intractable diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, increasingly encounter situations that can elicit emotional distress for them as well as the patients. Therefore, medical professionals also need support. This article describes a psychological case conference of multidisciplinary professionals involved in the treatment of a deceased patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The conference aimed to support medical professionals in reflecting on and sharing their thoughts, feelings, and conflicts. Such a practice could support medical professionals in reflecting patients' thoughts and sharing their personal experiences with other staff members, which may alleviate emotional and personal conflicts. Reflecting on their interactions and dealings with patients serves this supportive function. Psychological case conferences for medical staff may serve as an opportunity for participants to feel emotionally supported and may perhaps help prevent burnout.
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- Haruo Fujino
- Department of Special Needs Education, Oita University, Oita, Japan.,Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
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- Division of Child Neurology, National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.,Faculty of Social Studies, Nara University, Nara, Japan
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