Family Presence at the PICU Bedside: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine factors associated with bedside family presence in the PICU and to understand how individual factors interact as barriers to family presence.

Design

Mixed methods study.

Setting

Tertiary children's hospital PICU.

Subjects

Five hundred twenty-three children of less than 18 years enrolled in the Seattle Children's Hospital Outcomes Assessment Program from 2011 to 2017.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Quantitative: Family was documented every 2 hours. Exposures included patient and illness characteristics and family demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. We used multivariable logistic regression to identify factors associated with presence of less than 80% and stratified results by self-reported race.

SUBMITTER: Smith MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10701139 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature