Involving parents and families

A key component of ESCALATION is incorporation of family input in reporting changes in their child’s condition that can indicate early signs of deteriorating health. Family involvement is integrated in the ESCALATION System through proactively asking families:

• How do you think your child is doing?
• Has anything changed?
• Are you worried your child is getting worse?

To support families to report changes they notice in their child’s condition the Tell us if are worried poster was co-designed with health consumers and is now displayed at patient bedsides in Emergency Departments and hospital wards throughout WA health facilities where children are cared for.

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