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Table 2. Settings Across Which Accommodating Visiting Policies are Beneficial to Patient Care The term visitor needs to distinguish between “social visitors” and “essential caregivers”. Family and essential caregivers are active and essential in the ongoing care of a patient admitted to hospital. Communication, Decision Making, and Advocacy
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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...
- Stephana J. Moss, Karla D. Krewulak, Henry T. Stelfox, Sofia B. Ahmed, Melanie C. Anglin, Sean M. Ba...
- 2021
May 28, 2021 · A subsequent study conducted in the United States between March 7 and May 30, 2020, of 9,149 hospitalized patients found low rates of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2. 14 Only one of the 12 cases diagnosed among patients after three days in hospital was deemed to be acquired from a pre-symptomatic family/essential caregiver before restrictions were implemented. The low rates cannot be attributable ...
Jan 25, 2021 · A reflexive and almost complete restriction of visitors occurred across all hospitals surveyed in a pan-Canadian study involving 35 hospitals.1 Such policies were designed to balance the interests of patients and their caregivers against society’s utilitarian responsibility to mitigate transmission into and within hospitals, with the secondary objective of preserving personal protective ...
- Laveena Munshi, Gerald Evans, Fahad Razak
- 2021
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 ...
Dec 21, 2021 · Several hospitals in Ontario have introduced stricter visitor policies amid a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the fast spreading Omicron variant. Unity Health Toronto and the University Health ...
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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.
