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.