ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2021
Family Meetings in the Intensive Care Unit During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.
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- The Effect of Hospital Visitor Policies on Patients, Their Visitors, and Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.The American journal of medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Family-centred care of patients admitted to the intensive care unit in times of COVID-19: A systematic review.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2022Pooled it
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- User Experience of a Bespoke Videoconferencing System for Web-Based Family Visitation for Patients in an Intensive Care Unit: 1-Year Cross-Sectional Survey of Nursing Staff.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence for better goals of care documentation.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2024Article
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- Disparities in Palliative Care Among Critically Ill Patients With and Without COVID-19 at the End of Life: A Population-Based Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2023Article
- In their absence; intensive care nurses' experiences of communicating and supporting relatives from a distance.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Ethical issues encountered by French intensive care unit caregivers during the first COVID-19 outbreak.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Article
- Perceived Consequences of COVID-19 Restrictive Visitation Policy on Family Members at Rural Hospitals in Vhembe District: A Qualitative Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- The positive impact of COVID-19 on critical care: from unprecedented challenges to transformative changes, from the perspective of young intensivists.Annals of intensive care · 2023Review
- Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-19.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Place of Death Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Patients With Cancer in Washington State.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023Article
- Advanced care planning in the early phase of COVID-19: a rapid review of the practice and policy lessons learned.Frontiers in health services · 2023Review
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- Cultural adaptation of a community-based advance serious illness planning decision aid to the Quebec context involving end-users.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Voices from the Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Family Experiences and Suggestions regarding the Care of Critically Ill Patients.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Observational
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Abstract
purposeVisitor restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic limit in-person family meetings for hospitalized patients. We aimed to evaluate the quantity of family meetings by telephone, video and in-person during the COVID-19 pandemic by manual chart review. Secondary outcomes included rate of change in patient goals of care between video and in-person meetings, the timing of family meetings, and variability in meetings by race and ethnicity.
methodsA retrospective cohort study evaluated patients admitted to the intensive care unit at an urban academic hospital between March and June 2020. Patients lacking decision-making capacity and receiving a referral for a video meeting were included in this study.
resultsMost patients meeting inclusion criteria (N = 61/481, 13%) had COVID-19 pneumonia (n = 57/61, 93%). A total of 650 documented family meetings occurred. Few occurred in-person (n = 70/650, 11%) or discussed goals of care (n = 233/650, 36%). For meetings discussing goals of care, changes in patient goals of care occurred more often for in-person meetings rather than by video (36% vs. 11%, p = 0.0006). The average time to the first goals of care family meeting was 11.4 days from admission. More documented telephone meetings per admission were observed for White (10.5, SD 9.5) and Black/African-American (7.1, SD 6.6) patients compared to Hispanic or Latino patients (4.9, SD 4.9) (p = 0.02).
conclusionsDuring this period of strict visitor restrictions, few family meetings occurred in-person. Statistically significant fewer changes in patient goals of care occurred following video meetings compared to in-person meetings, providing support limiting in-person meetings may affect patient care.
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