1. Variation in communication and family visiting policies in intensive care within and between countries during the Covid-19 pandemic: The COVISIT international survey
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Alexis Tabah, Muhammed Elhadi, Emma Ballard, Andrea Cortegiani, Maurizio Cecconi, Takeshi Unoki, Laurą Galarza, Regis Goulart Rosa, Francois Barbier, Elie Azoulay, Kevin B. Laupland, Nathalie Ssi Yan Kai, Marlies Ostermann, Guy Francois, Jan J. De Waele, Kirsten Fiest, Peter Spronk, Julie Benbenishty, Mariangela Pellegrini, Louise Rose, Mahesh Ramanan, Rachel Bailey, Irmgard E. Kronberger, Anis Cerovac, Wendy Sligl, Jasminka Peršec, Eddy Lincango-Naranjo, Nermin Osman, Yousef Tanas, Yomna Dean, Ahmed Mohamed Abbas, Mohamed Gamal Elbahnasawy, Eslam Mohamed Elshennawy, Omar Elmandouh, Fatima Hamed Ahmed, Despoina Koulenti, Ioannis Tsakiridis, Mohan Gurjar, Marilaeta Cindryani, Ata Mahmoodpoor, Hogir Imad Rasheed Aldawoody, Francesco Zuccaro, Pasquale Iozzo, Mariachiara Ippolito, Yukiko Katayama, Tomoki Kuribara, Satoko Miyazaki, Asami Nakayama, Akira Ouchi, Hideaki Sakuramoto, Mitsuhiro Tamoto, Toru Yamada, Hashem Abdulaziz Abu Serhan, Saqr Ghaleb Ghassab Alsakarneh, Zhannur Kaligozhin, Dmitriy Viderman, Lina Karout, Mohd Shahnaz Hasan, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria, Silvio A. Ñamendys-Silva, Lajpat Rai, Antonio Thaddeus R. Abello, Pedro Povoa, Dana Tomescu, Evgeniy Drozdov, Alberto Orejas Gallego, Ursula M. Jariod-Ferrer, Bernardo Nuñez-Garçia, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed, Abram Raymon Moneer George, Marie-Madlen Jeitziner, Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, Arda Isik, Abdullah Tarik Aslan, Tomasz Torlinski, Tabah, Alexi, Elhadi, Muhammed, Ballard, Emma, Cortegiani, Andrea, Cecconi, Maurizio, Unoki, Takeshi, Galarza, Laurą, Rosa, Regis Goulart, Barbier, Francoi, Azoulay, Elie, Laupland, Kevin B, Ssi Yan Kai, Nathalie, Ostermann, Marlie, Francois, Guy, De Waele, Jan J, Fiest, Kirsten, Spronk, Peter, Benbenishty, Julie, Pellegrini, Mariangela, Rose, Louise, and Mahesh Ramanan (Australia), Rachel Bailey (Australia), Irmgard E. Kronberger (Austria), Anis Cerovac (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Wendy Sligl (Canada), Jasminka Peršec (Croatia), Eddy Lincango-Naranjo (Ecuador), Nermin Osman (Egypt), Yousef Tanas (Egypt), Yomna Dean (Egypt), Ahmed Mohamed Abbas (Egypt), Mohamed Gamal Elbahnasawy (Egypt), Eslam Mohamed Elshennawy (Egypt), Omar Elmandouh (Egypt), Fatima Hamed Ahmed. (Egypt), Despoina Koulenti (Greece), Ioannis Tsakiridis (Greece), Mohan Gurjar (India), Marilaeta Cindryani (Indonesia), Ata Mahmoodpoor (Iran), Hogir Imad Rasheed Aldawoody (Iraq), Francesco Zuccaro (Italy), Pasquale Iozzo, Mariachiara Ippolito, Yukiko Katayama (Japan), Tomoki Kuribara (Japan), Satoko Miyazaki (Japan), Asami Nakayama (Japan), Akira Ouchi (Japan), Hideaki Sakuramoto (Japan), Mitsuhiro Tamoto (Japan), Toru Yamada (Japan), Hashem Abdulaziz Abu Serhan (Jordan), Saqr Ghaleb Ghassab Alsakarneh (Jordan), Zhannur Kaligozhin (Kazakhstan), Dmitriy Viderman (Kazakhstan), Lina Karout (Lebanon), Mohd Shahnaz Hasan (Malaysia), Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria (Malaysia), Silvio A Ñamendys-Silva (Mexico), Lajpat Rai (Pakistan), Antonio Thaddeus R. Abello (Philippines), Pedro Povoa (Portugal), Dana Tomescu (Romania), Evgeniy Drozdov (Russia), Alberto Orejas Gallego. (Spain), Ursula M. Jariod- Ferrer (Spain), Bernardo Núñez García (Spain), Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed (Sudan), Abram Raymon Moneer George (Sudan), Marie-Madlen Jeitziner (Switzerland), Kemal Tolga Saracoglu (Turkey), Arda Isik (Turkey), Abdullah Tarik Aslan (Turkey), Tomasz Torlinski (United Kingdom).
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Critical Care ,Communication ,COVID-19 ,Visitors to Patients ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Organizational Policy ,Intensive Care Units ,Policy ,Intensive care ,Restriction ,Humans ,Family ,Pandemics ,visiting restriction intensive care ,Visiting - Abstract
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive care units (ICU) introduced restrictions to in-person family visiting to safeguard patients, healthcare personnel, and visitors. Methods: We conducted a web-based survey (March– July 2021) investigating ICU visiting practices before the pandemic, at peak COVID-19 ICU admissions, and at the time of survey response. We sought data on visiting pol icies and communication modes including use of virtual visiting (videoconferencing). Results: We obtained 667 valid responses representing ICUs in all continents. Before the pandemic, 20% (106/ 525) had unrestricted visiting hours ; 6% (30/525) did not allow in-person visiting. At peak, 84% (558/667) did not allow in-person visiting for patients with COVID-19 ; 66% for patients without COVID-19. This proportion had decreased to 55% (369/667) at time of survey reporting. A government mandate to restrict hospital visiting was reported by 53% (354/646). Most ICUs (55%, 353/615) used regular telephone updates ; 50% (306/667) used telephone for formal meetings and discussions regarding prognosis or end-of-life. Virtual visiting was available in 63% (418/667) at time of survey. Conclusions: Highly restrictive visiting policies were introduced at the initial pandemic peaks, were subsequently liberalized, but without returning to pre-pandemic practices. Telephone became the primary communication mode in most ICUs, supplemented with virtual visits.
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- 2022