ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2022
Patients' and caregivers' experiences of hospitalization under COVID-19 visitation restrictions.
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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
- How Social Connectedness Helps Patients Stay Home After Hospital at Home Enrollment: A Mixed Methods Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- 'I Do It All Alone': The Burdens and Benefits of Being Diagnosed With, and Treated for, Colorectal Cancer During the Covid-19 Pandemic.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Managing Shifting Visitor Restrictions in Hospitals during the COVID-19 Pandemic from National Authority Level to Charge Nurses' Practice: A Descriptive Study.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
- Our Fears Have Been Confirmed about Intensive Care Unit Families in 2020.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Dysphagia and aspiration during a Parkinson's hospitalization: a care partner's perspective and recommendations for improving standards of care.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Patients' and caregivers' experiences of hospitalization under COVID-19 visitation restrictions.Journal of hospital medicine · 2022Article
- Restricting family presence due to COVID-19: The harms we do not see.Journal of hospital medicine · 2022Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals did not allow caregiver visitation. Little is known about how caregivers' absence affected patients' care.
objectiveThis study aimed to describe visitation restrictions' impact on patients and their caregivers experiences.
designWe used a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study design. First, we randomly selected 200 adult patients with cancer or heart failure hospitalized before (n = 100) and during visitor restrictions (n = 100) and abstracted data from the electronic medical record on communication between medical teams and caregivers and the topics discussed. Results from the quantitative analysis guided our thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample of patients hospitalized during visitor restrictions and their caregivers to understand the impact of visitor restrictions on their experiences.
resultsCompared to prerestrictions, caregivers under visitation restrictions communicated less frequently with the medical team (29% vs. 37% of hospitalized days; p = .04), fewer received discharge counseling (37% vs. 52%; p = .04), and disproportionately more had no contact with the medical team (36% vs. 17%; p < .01). Video conferencing was documented for caregivers of only five patients. Qualitative analysis revealed that both caregivers and patients experienced emotional distress, increased conflict, and decreased perception of quality of care because of visitation restrictions.
conclusionsHospital visitor restrictions significantly reduced caregivers' communication with patients' medical team, causing caregivers and patients emotional distress. Protocols that facilitate communication between caregivers and care teams may benefit caregivers who cannot be physically present at care facilities, including distance caregivers.
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