Application of a flexible visitation system in critically ill patients: A randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the feasibility of a flexible visitation system in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods

A randomized, open-label, parallel group clinical trial was conducted. All patients admitted to the ICU of the Lanzhou University Second Hospital from April to June 2022 were enrolled. The enrolled patients were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group according to a computer-generated random sequence table.

Results

A total of 410 patients were admitted. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 140 patients were included in the experimental group (flexible visitation group) and 140 in the control group (normal visitation group). The average number of visitation minutes per day between the experimental group and the control g

SUBMITTER: Yang HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358547 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature