Involving parents and families

Stories remind us all about the importance of nurses, doctors and families working together to avoid delays in recognising and responding to patient deterioration.

​Read some important stories here:

• Josie King 
• Lewis Blackman
• Ryan Saunders
• Kyran Day 
• Josie King
• Mataya Robin

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Key articles reporting on family involvement in escalation of care:

• Gill F, Leslie G, Marshall A. The impact of implementation of family initiated escalation of care for the deteriorating patient in hospital: A systematic review. Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing. 2016; 13:303–313
• Albutt AK, O'Hara JK, Conner MT, Fletcher SJ, Lawton RJ. Is there a role for patients and their relatives in escalating clinical deterioration in hospital? A systematic review. Health Expectations. 2016:1-8.
• Vorwerk J, King L. Consumer participation in early detection of the deteriorating patient and call activation to rapid response systems: a literature review. J Clin Nurs. 2016; 25:38-52.
• Gill FJ., Leslie GD., Marshall AP. Barriers and facilitators to implementing a process to enable parent escalation of care for the deteriorating child in hospital. Health Expectations. 2018; 21    Click on link to view     
• Gill FJ, Leslie GD, Marshall AP. Parent escalation of care for the deteriorating child in hospital: A health improvement study. Health Expectations. 2019;22: 1078-1088   Click on link to view​
• Gill F, Leslie G, Marshall A. Family initiated escalation of care for the deteriorating patient in hospital: Family centred care or just “box ticking”. Aust Crit Care. 2016; 29:195-200.
• King L, Peacock G, Crotty M, Clark R. Consumers’ perspectives on their involvement in recognizing and responding to patient deterioration—Developing a model for consumer reporting. Health Expectations. 2019 (in press)
• Strickland W, Pirret A, Takerei S. Patient and/or family activated rapid response service: Patients’ perceptions of deterioration and need for a service. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2018