ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2022
COVID-19 hospital and emergency department visitor policies in the United States: Impact on persons with cognitive or physical impairment or receiving end-of-life care.
Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- The Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Hospital Visitation Bans in the COVID-19 Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Perspectives from persons living with dementia and their caregivers on emergency department visits, care transitions, and outpatient follow-up: A qualitative study.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Article
- Differences in delivery hospitalization experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic by maternal race and ethnicity, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2020.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Considerations in the Geriatric Emergency Department Patient.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2023Review
- Considerations of COVID-19 in Ophthalmology.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Infection prevention and control between legal requirements and German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology expert assessments: a cross-sectional study in September-November 2022.The Journal of hospital infection · 2023Article
- Ethical Guidance on Family Caregiving, Support, and Visitation in Hospitals and Residential Health Care Facilities, Including During Public Health Emergencies: an American College of Physicians Position Paper.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Companion restrictions in the emergency department during COVID-19: physician perceptions from the Western Cape, South Africa.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Caregivers are not visitors.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- COVID-19 hospital and emergency department visitor policies in the United States: Impact on persons with cognitive or physical impairment or receiving end-of-life care.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Emergency department care transition barriers: A qualitative study of care partners of older adults with cognitive impairment.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2022Article
- The Impact of Outpatient Prenatal Care Visitor Restrictions on Pregnant Patients and Partners During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Emergency Department Policies to Improve Care Experiences for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of geriatric emergency medicine · 2022Article
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo characterize the national distribution of COVID-19 hospital and emergency department visitor restriction policies across the United States, focusing on patients with cognitive or physical impairment or receiving end-of-life care.
methodsCross-sectional study of visitor policies and exceptions, using a nationally representative random sample of EDs and hospitals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, by trained study investigators using standardized instrument.
resultsOf the 352 hospitals studied, 326 (93%) had a COVID-19 hospital-wide visitor restriction policy and 164 (47%) also had an ED-specific policy. Hospital-wide policies were more prevalent at academic than non-academic (96% vs 90%;
conclusionAlthough the benefits of visitor policies towards curbing COVID-19 transmission had not been firmly established, such policies were widespread among US hospitals. Exceptions that permitted family or other caregivers for patients with cognitive or physical impairments or receiving end-of-life care were predominantly lacking, as were policies in non-English languages.
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