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Conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the COVID-19-related visiting restrictions in the intensive care unit : A Scandinavian cross-sectional study
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- Jensen, Hanne Irene (author)
- University Hospital of Southern Denmark
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- Åkerman, Eva (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Lind, Raneveig (author)
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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- Alfheim, Hanne Birgit (author)
- VID Specialized University, Norway
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- Frivold, Gro (author)
- University of Agder, Norway
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- Fridh, Isabell, 1954- (author)
- Högskolan i Borås,Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd
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- Ågård, Anne Sophie (author)
- Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Churchill Livingstone, 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. - : Churchill Livingstone. - 0964-3397 .- 1532-4036.
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- Objectives: To examine conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related visiting restrictions in Scandinavian intensive care units. Research methodology/design: A cross-sectional survey. Setting: Adult intensive care units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Main outcome measures: Likert scale responses and free-text comments within six areas: capacity and staffing, visiting policies and access to the unit, information and conferences with relatives, written information, children as relatives and follow-up initiatives. Results: The overall response rate was 53% (74/140 participating units). All intensive care units had planned for capacity extensions; the majority ranging between 11 and 30 extra beds. From March–June 2020, units had a mean maximum of 9.4 COVID-19 patients simultaneously. Allowing restricted visiting was more common in Denmark (52%) and Norway (61%) than in Sweden where visiting was mostly denied except for dying patients (68%), due to a particular increased number of COVID-19 patients. The restrictions forced nurses to compromise on their usual standards of family care. Numerous models for maintaining contact between relatives and patients were described. Conclusion: Visitation restrictions compromised the quality of family care and entailed dilemmas for healthcare professionals but also spurred initiatives to developing new ways of providing family care. © 2021 The Authors
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- COVID-19
- Family
- ICU
- Relatives
- Survey
- Visitation
- Människan i vården
- The Human Perspective in Care
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