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Introduction Flexible visitation policies in hospitals are an important component of care that contributes to reduced stress and increased satisfaction among patients and their family members. Early evidence suggests restricted visitation policies enacted in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic are having unintended consequences on patients, family members and healthcare providers. There is ...
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The knowledge on the spread of COVID-19, and visiting restrictions is still limited, and multiple possible routes of in-hospital COVID-19 transmission has been identified (Rickman et al., 2021). Since visiting restrictions has been one out of many precautions for infection control implemented within the healthcare services during the pandemic, no study that has distinguished the effects from ...
Apr 23, 2022 · Most studies took place in North America (46%), specifically the United States, followed by Europe (42%), including the UK, France, and Italy. Patients were the population of interest in 37% of included studies; family, support persons, or visitors were the focus of 33%; 29% assessed the impact of visitor restrictions on health care providers; and the remaining 11% addressed multiple populations.
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1. What are the impacts of restricted hospital visitation policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic on patients, family members or healthcare professionals of hospitalized patients?2. What approaches have been taken to mitigate the impact on patients, family members, or healthcare professionals?The components of population, exposure, comparator, outcome, study design, and timeframe are as follows: 1. PopulationPatients, family members (i.e., relatives, close friends), or healthcare professionals (e.g., nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists) of adult patients (> 17 years of age, or as defined in the individual study) who were hospital...
We performed systematic searches that were unrestricted by date and language in Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Healthstar, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) database, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Experienced librarians developed (N.D.) and PRESS reviewed (D.L.) all searches that were perfor...
We selected records that reported perspectives (i.e., mental views or prospects) on or impacts (i.e., any diagnosed psychopathologies or symptoms of psychopathologies, neurocognitive disorders or symptoms of neurocognitive disorders; health-related quality of life, self-efficacy [ability to function and maintain relationships], general well-being [...
In another calibration exercise to achieve > 75% inter-rater agreement, we trained the same reviewers from record selection (S.M., M.A., L.H., K.M.) to independently abstract data in duplicate using a standardized form. We abstracted the following data: record identifiers and type (e.g., purpose, sample size, measures), participants (i.e., patients...
Two reviewers (S.M., M.A., L.H., K.M.) independently and in duplicate analyzed data in a two-stage process according to validated guidelines for narrative synthesis of quantitative studies and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies for reviews on health research . Qualitative thematic analysis was performed to compare and contrast findings acro...
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has included drastic hospital visitation restrictions, a well-intentioned extension of social distancing meant to minimize hospital traffic. It may be prudent and ethical to limit visitation in the interests of public health during times of pandemic . However, the severe limitation—and in some cases ...
Oct 27, 2023 · Hospital policy that advocated visiting at the discretion of a unit or ward nurse manager led to variability and perceptions of inequitable access. Restricting family presence in hospitals causes harmful consequences for family members and negatively impacts their ability to cope (Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, 2021 ).
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Regarded at the time as a measure which was necessary to mitigate the spread of the disease, policies limiting visiting rights have been subject to heavy criticism since the waning of the pandemic.1–3 The idea of people dying alone in hospital or living in residential care settings for months with no access to family members or loved ones is particularly troubling and it is difficult in ...
