PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Richard C. Rapp
AU  - John Pascoe
TI  - Clarifying Parents' and Pediatricians' Views of Partnership
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2016.05.160052
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 563--571
VI  - 29
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/29/5/563.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/29/5/563.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2016 Sep 01; 29
AB  - Purpose: Given the importance of partnership in improving health care outcomes among children, there is a substantial need to understand better what partnership means to parents and physicians. The goal of this study was to develop a partnership survey that was based on parents' and pediatricians' opinions about the key concepts of partnership.Methods: Parents of patients visiting an affluent suburban private practice and a federally qualified health center, and 2 groups of pediatricians, were asked to review 61 partnership concepts and identify those they considered as being important to partnership.Results: Parents and pediatricians from both practices agreed that 42 (68.9%) of the concepts were important to partnership. Sixteen of these concepts were dropped because they were redundant. Parents from both the suburban practice and health center identified 5 (8.2%) concepts that they believed contributed to partnership. Seven (11.5%) concepts were viewed as important to parents and pediatricians from the suburban practice but not to parents from the health center. Significant socioeconomic differences between the 2 parent groups suggested factors that explained the differences between parent groups.Conclusion: The 38 concepts endorsed by parents and pediatricians provided a nuanced view of partnership and formed the Parent Pediatrician Partnership Survey.