Setting and Participants
The study was conducted at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston,
Texas, a quaternary care pediatric and women’s care hospital, in
collaboration with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH).
Providers (physicians and advanced practice providers) from anesthesia,
surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, community pediatrics, pediatric hospital
medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, and various ambulatory and
inpatient pediatric subspecialties were invited to participate in a
5.5-hour RCC skills training course. ACH-trained TCH providers taught
over 1000 multidisciplinary providers from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2019.
Forty-nine pediatric hematology/oncology providers took the course
during this time period. An Institutional Review Board approval was
obtained for the study.