Evidence-informed consensus statements to guide COVID-19 patient visitation policies: results from a national stakeholder meeting.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Hospital policies forbidding or limiting families from visiting relatives on the intensive care unit (ICU) has affected patients, families, healthcare professionals, and patient- and family-centered care (PFCC). We sought to refine evidence-informed consensus statements to guide the creation of ICU visitation policies during the current COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics and to identify barriers and facilitators to their implementation and sustained uptake in Canadian ICUs.

Methods

We created consensus statements from 36 evidence-informed experiences (i.e., impacts on patients, families, healthcare professionals, and PFCC) and 63 evidence-informed strategies (i.e., ways to improve restricted visitation) identified during a modified Delphi process (described elsew

SUBMITTER: Fiest KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970637 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature