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Effective interdisciplinary communication helps to improve outcomes in pediatric onco-critical care. Teams must be able to communicate successfully to assess, strategize and implement interventions for their patients.
CritCom is a survey to assess the quality of a center’s interdisciplinary communication around patient deterioration. Results allow the center to implement policies and training programs to improve communication and quality of care.
The survey evaluates the quality of team communication across disciplines (e.g., ICU, oncology) and professions (e.g., nurses, physicians) at centers that care for children with cancer who are at risk of deterioration. CritCom identifies strengths and challenges of interdisciplinary and multilingual communication for teams in diverse linguistic and cultural settings.
All members of the clinical team involved in patient care should participate in the survey, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other disciplines that care for hospitalized children with cancer.
When a team completes the CritCom survey, they receive a report with their combined responses. The CritCom Results Report highlights communication strengths and opportunities for improvement. Centers can use this report to develop interventions to improve communication.
CritCom includes 30 questions in six domains that examine different aspects of communication:
CritCom: Assessment of quality of interdisciplinary communication around deterioration in pediatric oncologic patients
Rivera J, Malone S, Puerto-Torres M, Prewitt K, Counts L, Wiphatphumiprates P, Sakaan F, Zebin A, Bhattacharyya P, Gunasekera S, Johnson S, Kambugu J, Kaye EC, Mandrell B, Mack J, McArthur J, Mendez A, Morrissey L, Sharara-Chami R, Snaman J, Sniderman E, Luke DA, Graetz DE, and Agulnik A. (2023). Frontiers in Oncology. Sec. Pediatric Oncology.
A new measure for multi-professional medical team communication: design and methodology for multilingual measurement development
Malone S, Rivera J, Puerto-Torres M, Prewitt K, Sakaan F, Counts L, Al Zebin Z, Arias AV, Bhattacharyya P, Gunasekera S, Johnson S, Kambugu J, Kaye EC, Mandrell B, Mack JW, McArthur J, Mendez A, Morrissey L, Sarara-Chami R, Snaman J, Sniderman E, Luke DA, Graetz DE, & Agulnik A. (2023). Frontiers in Pediatrics.
If you have additional questions, please email CritCom@stjude.org.
