This little-explored area in surgery comprises a broad spectrum of projects aiming to improve and personalize the communication between children, their families, and their surgical care providers. Some of the areas which we are exploring together at CommiSurLab include:
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of SDM in pediatric surgery (completed)
- Scoping review of risk communication preferences in pediatric surgery (completed)
- Survey of communication preferences in pediatric surgery (completed)
- Scoping review of precision communication concepts and definitions (completed)
- Systematic review of the consenting process in pediatric surgery
- Consenting video evaluation study (completed)
- Scoping review of trust concepts in pediatric surgery (completed)
- Mixed-methods study of trust in pediatric surgery