From: The offering of family presence during resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Study type | • Randomized controlled trials |
• Published in journals or abstract form | |
• No date restriction | |
• No language restriction | |
Population | • Patients undergoing resuscitation, as defined by study authors, including cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, or circulatory failure/shock, and trauma |
• Resuscitation occurring in the outpatient/community, inpatient ward, or intensive care unit settings | |
Intervention | • Family presence during resuscitation or systematic offering of family presence during resuscitation |
• May or may not include presence of support staff during resuscitation, presence of follow-up/debriefing with family, or referral to counseling following resuscitation | |
Comparison | • Usual care, family not present during resuscitation, or not systematically offered the opportunity to be present |
• May or may not include presence of support staff during resuscitation, presence of follow-up/debriefing with family, or referral to counseling following resuscitation | |
Primary outcomes | • Patient outcomes: mortality, quality of resuscitation (duration of resuscitation, number, and timing of critical resuscitation events) |
• Family outcomes: symptoms of depression, symptoms of anxiety |