What's new in ICU visiting policies: Can we continue to keep the doors closed?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 730-733

  Giannini, Alberto ^a   Garrouste Orgeas, Maité ^b,c   Latour, Jos M ^d,e,f  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; FAMILY STRESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; COMPLICATION; FAMILY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MENTAL STRESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

FAMILY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISITORS TO PATIENTS;

EID: 84903266654     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3267-y     Document Type: Article

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