Care for the parents and family members at the PICU
Visiting hours on the PICU was usually 24h per day. However, some eastern European units only allowed 2 (IQR 2-10) h of visits per day (Table 4). The median number of family members allowed was two and about 50% of the PICUs have the possibility of rooming in for the parents. Information to caretakers was often given by multidisciplinary team (60%) and separate meeting rooms were available in 79% of the hospitals.
The parents were mostly allowed to participate in patient care (88%), while 44% of units allow parents to join clinical rounds.