The goal of this open pilot is to co-design and test a clinical agenda-setting intervention in the inpatient pediatric environment. We pilot a co-designed structured agenda-setting intervention (SAS) for multi-family meetings about children with medical complexity. Our open pilot will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the SAS during routine multidisciplinary family meetings (MFM) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. By doing an open pilot, researchers will learn if the agenda-setting instrument and implementation process are feasible and acceptable to patients, their care partner and their clinicians.

In this open pilot, the researchers will adapt and administer a novel structured agenda-setting tool (SAS) in the inpatient pediatric environment. The researchers will determine if their procedures for screening eligible participants, administering the intervention, and administering outcome and other questionnaires are appropriate. Learnings from the open pilot will feed forward into procedures in applications for larger trials of the intervention. This study only has one arm, the intervention arm. The intervention, the co-adapted SAS, will be administered to all enrolled participants. Future Directions: This open pilot will provide preliminary data for potential future larger trials.