ArticleJournal of intensive medicine2025
Nationwide survey on ICU visiting policies in Mainland of China: Current practices and perspectives.
Article in Journal of intensive medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Flexible family visitation and postoperative delirium in an orthopedic intensive care unit: A randomized trial examining surgical-type heterogeneity and cost outcomes.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Trial
- Surrogate resilience and clinical titration of presence in the open intensive care unit: a systematic narrative synthesis.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- 'Being an Outsider' and 'Being an Insider': A Focused Ethnography of Family Members' Visitation Experiences in an Adult ICU.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Family presence is essential in reducing delirium and promoting early recovery of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study was conducted through a questionnaire survey to examine the current visitation policies of ICUs in China and explore flexible visitation options. Methods: Two versions of independently developed questionnaire, informed by relevant literature, was distributed in two versions: a medical staff questionnaire and a family questionnaire. The survey was administered online and conducted anonymously, with participants completing it after scanning a two-dimensional bar code. Data were collected from January 2020 to June 2020. We accessed the difference between the two groups were compared and the association between factors associated with family satisfaction were assessed. Results: A total of 1200 hospitals across 30 provinces participated, yielding 16,359 valid responses (13,483 from medical staff and 2876 from family members). Currently, 90.5 % of the ICUs allow once-daily visitation, whereas only 1.2 % permit unrestricted visitation. Family care was allowed in 15.0 % of the ICUs at the end of the patient's life, and 30.3 % allowed flexible visitation for rehabilitation exercises. Among medical staff, 73.9 % of doctors and 58.7 % of nurses supported flexible visitation when rehabilitation exercises are needed. In addition, 73.3 % of family members were willing to help with rehabilitation exercises, and 77.3 % were satisfied with the existing visitation policies. Conclusions: Most ICUs in mainland of China enforce restrictive visitation policies, most medical staff and family members accept. Moreover, flexible visitation policies for rehabilitation purposes may be increasingly acceptable in the future.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.