Keywords
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribers receive full online access to your subscription and archive of back issues up to and including 2002.
Content published before 2002 is available via pay-per-view purchase only.
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Critical Care ClinicsReferences
- The first intensive care unit in the world: copenhagen 1953.Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2003; 47: 1190-1195
- From intensive care to critical care medicine: a historical perspective.Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011; 183: 1451-1453
- Elements of progression and patient care US Gov Print Off.USPHS Publ, Washington, DC1962
- A facility designed for coronary care. US Gov Print Off, Washington, DC1965
- In praise of open visiting.Nurs Times. 1979; 75: 1747
- ICU visiting policies.Crit Care Med. 1984; 12: 606-608
- Open visiting in the ICU: a debate.Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 1985; 4: 296-306
- Flexible visiting hours in the adult critical care unit.Focus Crit Care. 1988; 15: 66-69
- Models of family-centered care in one acute care institution.Nurs Clin North Am. 1984; 19: 173-188
- Visiting hours in the adult intensive care unit: using research to develop a system that works.Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 1995; 14: 245-258
- The visiting needs of critically ill patients and their families.J Post Anesth Nurs. 1992; 7: 377-386
- The effects of human contact on cardiac arrhythmia in coronary care patients.J Nerv Ment Dis. 1974; 158: 88-99
- Effect of family visits on the blood pressure and heart rate of patients in the coronary-care unit.Heart Lung. 1976; 5: 291-296
- The significance of psychological events in a coronary care unit. Preliminary report.Acta Med Scand. 1973; 193: 207-210
- Visiting policies for patients with myocardial infarction: a national survey.Heart Lung. 1982; 11: 571-576
- Nursing responsibilities in changing visiting restrictions in the intensive care unit.Heart Lung. 1985; 14: 181-186
- Critical care unit visiting policies: a survey.Focus Crit Care. 1988; 15: 45-48
- Current practices regarding visitation policies in critical care units.Am J Crit Care. 1997; 6: 210-217
- Visitation: policy versus practice.Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 1998; 17: 40-47
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ national survey of facilities and units providing critical care.Am J Crit Care. 2006; 15: 13-27
- Visiting hours policies in New England intensive care units: strategies for improvement.Crit Care Med. 2007; 35: 497-501
- An evaluation of family-centered care services and organization of visiting policies in Belgian intensive care units: a multicenter survey.Heart Lung. 2010; 39: 137-146
- Visiting-hour policies for intensive care units in southern Iran.Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2011; 13https://doi.org/10.5812/kowsar.20741804.2242
- Visitation policies and practices in US ICUs.Crit Care. 2013; 17: R71
- Open intensive care units: a global challenge for patients, relatives, and critical care teams.Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2014; 33: 181-193
- Visiting policies in the adult intensive care units in The Netherlands: survey among ICU directors.ISRN Crit Care. 2013; 2013: 1-6
- Patient and family engagement in the ICU: report from the task force of the world federation of societies of intensive and critical care medicine.J Crit Care. 2018; 48: 251-256
- Is open visitation really “open” in adult intensive care units in the United States?.Am J Crit Care. 2020; 29: 221-225
- Family presence and visitation practices in Latin American PICUs: an international survey.J Pediatr Intensive Care. 2021; 10: 276-281
- An environmental scan of visitation policies in Canadian intensive care units during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Can J Anesth Can d’anesthésie. 2021; 68: 1474-1484
- Practices and perceptions of nurses regarding child visitation in adult intensive care units.Am J Crit Care. 2020; 29: 195-203
- Children visiting members of their family receiving treatment in ICUs: a literature review.Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 1994; 10: 289-292
- A visit to the intensive cares unit.Crit Care Nurs Q. 2012; 35: 113-122
- The effect visiting relatives in the adult ICU has on children.Intensive Care Med. 2019; 45: 1490-1492
- The influence of COVID-19 visitation restrictions on patient experience and safety outcomes: a critical role for subjective advocates.Patient Exp J. 2021; 8: 30-39
- Open visitation policies and practices in US ICUs: can we ever get there?.Crit Care. 2013; 17: 171
- Flexible versus restrictive visiting policies in ICUs.Crit Care Med. 2018; 46: 1175-1180
- International best practices in critical care nursing.in: Goldsworthy S. Kleinpell R. Williams G. World federation of critical care nurses. 2nd edition. World Federation of Critical Care Nurses, NSW Australia2019: 96-112
- Family pet visitation.Am J Nurs. 2013; 113: 54-59
- Pets and the family.Holist Nurs Pract. 1991; 5: 58-63
- Family and pet visitation in the critical care unit.Crit Care Nurse. 1999; 19: 84-87
- Implementation of a pet visitation program in critical care.Crit Care Nurse. 1999; 19: 43-50
- Restricted visiting hours in ICUs: time to change.JAMA. 2004; 292: 736-737
- Clinical practice guidelines for support of the family in the patient-centered intensive care unit: American College of Critical Care Medicine Task Force 2004-2005.Crit Care Med. 2007; 35: 605-622
- Guidelines for family-centered care in the neonatal, pediatric, and adult ICU.Crit Care Med. 2017; 45: 103-128
- Position statement on visiting in adult critical care units in the UK.Nurs Crit Care. 2012; 17: 213-218
- Visitation in the adult ICU.Crit Care Nurse. 2012; 32: 76-78
- Family visitation in the adult intensive care unit.Crit Care Nurse. 2016; 36: e15-e18
- Open visitation and nurse job satisfaction: an integrative review.J Clin Nurs. 2017; 26: 4868-4876
- Open visiting in adult intensive care units – a structured literature review.Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2020; 56: 2-8
- Improving nurse satisfaction with open visitation in an adult intensive care unit.Crit Care Nurs Q. 2017; 40: 144-154
- Hospital policies during COVID-19: an analysis of visitor restrictions.J Public Health Manag Pract. 2022; 28: E299-E306
- Hospital visitation policies during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.Am J Infect Control. 2021; 49: 516-520
- To suffer alone: hospital visitation policies during COVID-19.J Hosp Med. 2020; 15: 694-695
- Restricted visitation policies in acute care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.Crit Care. 2021; 25: 347
- Impact of Hospital Visitor Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Science Briefs of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. 2021; 2https://doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.31.1.0
- Reduced cardiocirculatory complications with unrestrictive visiting policy in an intensive care unit: results from a pilot, randomized trial.Circulation. 2006; 113: 946-952
- Perceptions of an open visitation policy by intensive care unit workers.Ann Intensive Care. 2013; 3: 34
- Effectiveness and safety of an extended ICU visitation model for delirium prevention.Crit Care Med. 2017; 45: 1660-1667
- Eliminating visiting hour restrictions in hospitals.J Healthc Qual. 2014; 36: 54-57
- Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis.Ann Transl Med. 2020; 8: 629
- Incidence of nosocomial COVID-19 in patients hospitalized at a large US academic medical center.JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3: e2020498
- The impact of visitor restrictions on health care-associated respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: experience of a tertiary hospital in Singapore.Am J Infect Control. 2021; 49: 134-135
- Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: the underestimated potential of viral shedding.Int J Infect Dis. 2021; 102: 412-414
- From open to closed: COVID-19 restrictions on previously unrestricted visitation in adult intensive care units.Am J Crit Care. 2023; 32: 31-41
- Infection control in the intensive care unit: expert consensus statements for SARS-CoV-2 using a Delphi method.Lancet Infect Dis. 2022; 22: e74-e87
- Ethics of outbreaks position statement. Part 2.Crit Care Med. 2018; 46: 1856-1860
Dokken DL, Johnson BH, Markwell HJ. Family presence during a pandemic: Guidance for decision-making. Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care. 2021
- NPA. Essential care in the NICU during the COVID-19 pandemic.(Available at:) (Accessed June 17, 2022)
- Management of visitors to healthcare facilities in the context of COVID-19: non-US healthcare settings | CDC.(Available at:) (Accessed June 17, 2022)
- Alone, the hardest part.Intensive Care Med. 2020; 46: 1974-1976
- Changes to visitation policies and communication practices in Michigan ICUs during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020; 202: 883-885
- Communication and virtual visiting for families of patients in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a UK National survey.Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021; 18: 1685-1692
- The benefits and risks of the provision of a hospital-wide high-definition video conferencing virtual visiting service for patients and their relatives.Cureus. 2021; https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13435
- Facilitating virtual visitation in critical care units during a pandemic.Holist Nurs Pract. 2021; 35: 60-64
- Virtual visiting in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative descriptive study with ICU clinicians and non-ICU family team liaison members.BMJ Open. 2022; 12: e055679
- Use of telecritical care for family visitation to ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview study and sentiment analysis.BMJ Qual Saf. 2021; 30: 715-721
- Developing an innovative system of open and flexible, patient-family-centered, virtual visiting in ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic: a collaboration of staff, patients, families, and technology companies.J Intensive Care Med. 2021; 36: 1130-1140
- Perspectives on telephone and video communication in the intensive care unit during COVID-19.Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021; 18: 838-847
- Consequences of visiting restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative review.Int J Nurs Stud. 2021; 121: 104000
- COVID-related family separation and trauma in the intensive care unit.Psychol Trauma Theory, Res Pract Policy. 2020; 12: S96-S97
- The lived experiences of family members of Covid-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit: a phenomenological study.Hear Lung. 2021; 50: 926-932
- An ethical analysis of hospital visitor restrictions and masking requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.J Clin Ethics. 2021; 32: 38-47
- Impact of visitor restriction rules on the postoperative experience of COVID-19 negative patients undergoing surgery.Surgery. 2020; 168: 770-776
- Not dying alone — modern compassionate care in the Covid-19 pandemic.N Engl J Med. 2020; 382: e88
- The impact of family visitor restrictions on healthcare workers in the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic.Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2022; 68: 103123
- Coronavirus disease 2019 policy restricting family presence may have delayed end-of-life decisions for critically ill patients.Crit Care Med. 2021; 49: e1037-e1039
- Decision-making and outcomes of prolonged ICU stays in seriously ill patients.J Am Geriatr Soc. 2000; 48: S70-S74
- Experiences of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study.AACN Adv Crit Care. 2021; 32: 14-26
- Impact and consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on complicated grief and persistent complex bereavement disorder.Psychiatry Res. 2021; 300: 113916
- American nurses foundation, pulse on the nation’s nurses COVID-19 survey series: family presence & visitation during COVID-19.(Available at:) (Accessed June 23, 2022)
- Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and peritraumatic dissociation in critical care clinicians managing patients with COVID-19. A cross-sectional study.Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020; 202: 1388-1398
- Mental health outcomes of ICU and non-ICU healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional study.Ann Intensive Care. 2021; 11: 106
- ICU nurse’s moral distress as an occupational hazard threatening professional quality of life in the time of pandemic COVID 19.Mater Socio Medica. 2021; 33: 88
- Long-term care facilities.AJN, Am J Nurs. 2022; 122: 16
Hasenbeck, Pittman, Stark, et al. No Patient Left Alone Act. 2021.
- Satisfaction with elimination of all visitation restrictions in a mixed-profile intensive care unit.Am J Crit Care. 2016; 25: 46-50
Strauss A. Corbin J. Basics of Qualitative Research. Sage; 1990.
General Assembly of North Carolina. The No Patient Left Alone Act; 2021.
Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 988. No Patient Left Alone Act; 2022.
- Family Presence Policy Decision-Making Toolkit for Nurse Leaders. 2021: 1-17
- Advancing family presence policies and practices in the canadian health and care context: COVID-19 and beyond.Healthc Q. 2021; 24: 14-21