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Sep 2, 2021 · The Impact of Visitor Restrictions on Patient Care. Policies prohibiting or limiting family members and friends from visiting are meant to address public health and safety issues. However, the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in restrictions to visitation for hospitalised patients in order to limit the spread of COVID-19, organise care, and to reduce the use of personal protective equipment.5 6 Given the important role of family visitation and engagement in patient-centred and family-centred care,7 early evidence suggests that restricted visitation policies enacted in hospitals ...
- Stephana J Moss, Henry T Stelfox, Karla D Krewulak, Sofia Ahmed, Melanie C Anglin, Sean M Bagshaw, T...
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Jan 30, 2024 · A nationwide shortage of nursing care is impacting community-owned Bristol Health. The cash-strapped hospital says it’s losing valuable nurses to nearby UConn Health, as it struggles to maintain its operations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bristol Health, which includes a hospital and over 100 provider networks in Connecticut, is ...
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). These ...
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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...
Sep 23, 2021 · 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.
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May 7, 2021 · Family engagement is a key component of high-quality critical care, with known benefits for patients, care teams, and family members themselves. The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid enactment of prohibitions or restrictions on visitation that now persist, particularly for patients with COVID-19. Reevaluation of these policies in response to advances in knowledge and resources since the early ...
