Open AccessCoronavirus Disease 2019 Policy Restricting Family Presence May Have Delayed End-of-Life Decisions for Critically Ill Patients
Author(s) -
Tej D. Azad,
Mais AlKawaz,
Alison E. Turnbull,
Lucia RiveraLara
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005044
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , do not resuscitate , hazard ratio , emergency medicine , pandemic , palliative care , intensive care medicine , covid-19 , confidence interval , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty)
To determine if a restrictive visitor policy inadvertently lengthened the decision-making process for dying inpatients without coronavirus disease 2019.