Erschienen in:
01.12.2013 | Editorial
Re-visiting visiting hours
verfasst von:
Mitchell M. Levy, Daniel De Backer
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2013
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Excerpt
For a long time, intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians (physicians, nurses, and other clinical disciplines in the ICU) behaved as though critical care units were designed for them, rather than for patients and their loved ones. Across the globe, in every ICU regardless of discipline or location, determining appropriate visiting hours is a challenge [
1‐
3]. The study in this issue of
Intensive Care Medicine by Giannini and colleagues [
4] suggests that there is a willingness on the part of clinicians to provide enhanced benefits to patients and their loved ones by making more time available for family visits. …