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In this Science Brief we evaluate the rationale for visitor restrictions during a pandemic, the impact that strict visitor policies have on patients, families and health care workers, ways to safely bring visitors to the bedside and mechanisms to mitigate risk of visitor absence.
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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 · Key Message. The rationale for restrictive “no visitor” policies adopted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was to limit the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into the hospitals and to minimize the risk of transmission to the community.
This scoping review will identify, describe and categorise impacts of restricted hospital visitation policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic on patients, family members and healthcare providers of hospitalised patients, and approaches that have been taken to mitigate impact.
Jan 25, 2021 · Restrictive “no-visitor” policies were adopted in Canada during the first wave of the pandemic in an attempt to mitigate introduction and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) within hospitals, and to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers.
- Laveena Munshi, Gerald Evans, Fahad Razak
- 2021
May 7, 2021 · During the pandemic, hospitals broadly prohibited visitation because of concerns that family members of admitted patients may transmit virus through person-to-person contact within the hospital. 4,30,31 Persistence of visitation restrictions for patients with COVID-19 reflects the desire to protect family members from contracting and transmittin...
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Jul 18, 2021 · Many hospitals have started this month to ease those policies, but several more restrictive ones remain in place, even as the province entered Step 3 of its reopening.
