Involving parents and families

Aishwarya’s CARE Call, a 3-step process for patients, carers and family members to use if they are worried, or a person they care for, are getting sicker in hospital has been adopted across all health services in Western Australia. 
Click the link below for more information. 
 Aishwarya’s CARE Call (health.wa.gov.au)

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