Healthcare organizations' continued restrictions on hospital visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a violation of the rights of hospitalized patients to receive family visitors. Despite expert opinion related to the safety of visitation and low risk of visitor transmission with ...
6 The demands that the COVID-19 pandemic imposed on hospitals and feelings of isolation associated with restrictive family visitation policies may have disadvantaged patients. Prepandemic research suggests that compared with nonisolated patients, patients who are isolated for infection control consistently ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated rapid changes in healthcare delivery in the United States, including changes in the care of hospitalized children. The objectives of this study were to identify major changes in healthcare delivery for hospitalized children during the COVID-19 pandemic, identif...
Hospitals around the nation have enforced stricter visitation policies and adapted new sanitation guidelines, among other measures, in response to the growing number of COVID-19 patients. While these measures might seem extreme to outsiders, experts say they are necessary for slowing the spread of t...
While hospital visitor restrictions have softened since last year, constraints are still in place. Many hospitals in the Chicago area are allowing only one to two visitors per Covid-negative patient, during predetermined hours. Covid-positive patients are still not permitted visitors, and in most ...
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital becomes the second Seacoast hospital to change its visitation policy as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb in New Hampshire. Effective Tuesday Wentworth-Douglass will allow only one "support person" such as birth partners, parents/caregivers of pediatric patien...
During the COVID-19 infection-spreading period, the EMS in Kyoto city implemented a protocol to treat all the cardiac arrest patients as possibly having COVID-19. Bag-valve mask (BVM) ventilation and chest compression were performed with attention to the fact that virus-containing aerosols might...
As Covid-19 has unfolded, and hospitals became more rigid with visitation rules, I put off my annual health screenings.What if something would be wrong with me?I know I would not seek additional medical attention at this time. I encouraged my kids to drive slower. And, I pray that no...
Patients’ and caregivers’ experiences of hospitalization under COVID-19 visitation restrictions. J Hosp Med. 2022;17(10):819-826. doi:10.1002/jhm.12924PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 52. Kennedy NR, Steinberg A, Arnold RM, et al. Perspectives on telephone and v...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Organization, which manages the 14 facilities, said the ban on visits has been gradually eased after the COVID-19 pandemic came under control. An official with the organization explained that differing visitation polices reflect differences in the hospitals’ specialty fi...