Nurses’ and physicians’ viewpoints regarding children visiting/not visiting adult icus

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 64-73

  Knutsson, Susanne ^a   Bergbom, Ingegerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Child; Nurse; Physician; Visiting restrictions; Visitors to patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; VISITORS TO PATIENTS;

EID: 37849046850     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2007.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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