New Policy Statement: Patient- and Family-Centered Care and the Pediatrician's Role

The Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care collaborated with the Committee on Hospital Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in releasing the Patient- and Family-Centered Care and the Pediatrician's Role. This revised AAP policy statement, co-written by Jerrold Eichner, MD, FAAP, Chair of the Committee on Hospital Care 2007-2011, and Beverley Johnson, CEO and President of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, provides recommendations to promote patient- and family-centered care "throughout the health care system, including education of professionals, health care systems planning and facility design, and research."

The Academy first adopted a policy statement on Family-Centered Care and the Pediatrician's Role in 2003 (Pediatrics. 2003;112:691-696), and reaffirmed this Policy Statement in May 2007. An important difference in this 2012 revised policy statement is that the term family-centered care is replaced with the term "patient- and family-centered care... Read More...