Behavioral Coping Plans: One Inter-Professional Team's Approach to Patient-Centered Care

摘要

Background: Surgical encounters for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are stressful to patients, families and health care providers. It is recognized that parents best anticipate needs of children with ASD. Including a family in the plan of care for the child is imperative. In response to the need for targeted, tailored care, an interprofessional surgical services team convened to determine best practices for addressing a behavioral and developmental plan for children with ASD in the surgical services arena.