SynthesisThe American journal of medicine2022
The Effect of Hospital Visitor Policies on Patients, Their Visitors, and Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.
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- Caregivers as essential members of healthcare teams: lessons learned from enforcement of the "no visitors" policy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Lessons from COVID-19 patient visitation restrictions: six considerations to help develop ethical patient visitor policies.Monash bioethics review · 2025Article
- Video call program for intensive care patients and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective study.Saudi medical journal · 2025Article
- Addressing the ethical and legal complexities of hospital visitation restrictions for patients who are incarcerated.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Article
- Stage-specific harm in early-stage hospitals in South Korea: a retrospective analysis using the healthcare complaints analysis tool.BMJ open · 2025Article
- The impacts of visitor restrictions for palliative patients during the COVID-19 pandemic on family members and healthcare providers: a Canadian qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Anticipated effects of centralising complex gastrointestinal surgery in a rural area in Germany - perspective of health professionals: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- Navigating Acute Stroke: Perspectives from Survivors, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals in Ireland During COVID-19: A Qualitative Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Caseload per Year in Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: A Narrative Review.Cancers · 2024Review
- The effect of visitation restrictions on ED error.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Article
- "Like not having an arm": a qualitative study of the impact of visitor restrictions on cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- A qualitative study of leaders' experiences of handling challenges and changes induced by the COVID-19 pandemic in rural nursing homes and homecare services.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- MedT5SQL: a transformers-based large language model for text-to-SQL conversion in the healthcare domain.Frontiers in big data · 2024Article
- [Effects of new minimum volume standards in visceral surgery on healthcare in Brandenburg, Germany, from the perspective of healthcare providers].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- A survey of pediatric intensive care unit clinician experience with restricted family presence during COVID-19.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Article
- Relatives' experiences of visiting restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic's first wave: a PREMs study in Valais Hospital, Switzerland.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- End of life care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study on the perspectives of nurses and nurse assistants.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Observational study of organisational responses of 17 US hospitals over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ open · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Health care policymaking during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has questioned the precedent of restricting hospital visitors. We aimed to synthesize available data describing the resulting impact on patient, family/visitor, and health care provider well-being. We systematically reviewed articles from the World Health Organization COVID-19 Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease Database published between December 2019 through April 2021. Included studies focused on hospitalized patients and reported 1 or more prespecified main or secondary outcome (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19] disease transmission, global well-being, mortality, morbidity, or health care resource utilization). Two authors independently extracted data into a standardized form with a third author resolving discrepancies. A total of 1153 abstracts were screened, and 26 final full-text articles were included. Ten studies were qualitative, with 7 cohort studies, and no randomized controlled trials. Critically ill patients were the most represented (12 out of 26 studies). Blanket hospital visitor policies were associated with failure to address the unique needs of patients, their visitors, and health care providers in various clinical environments. Overall, a patient-centered, thoughtful, and nuanced approach to hospital visitor policies is likely to benefit all stakeholders while minimizing potential harms.
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