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

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  1. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via della Commenda 9, 20122, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Giannini

  2. Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Groupe Hospitalièr Paris Saint Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014, Paris, France

    Maité Garrouste-Orgeas

  3. IAME, UMR 1137, INSERM, 75018, Paris, France

    Maité Garrouste-Orgeas

  4. IAME, UMR 1137, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75018, Paris, France

    Maité Garrouste-Orgeas

  5. Faculty of Health, Education and Society, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Plymouth University, 8 Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK

    Jos M. Latour

  6. Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, 6845, Australia

    Jos M. Latour

  7. Neonatal Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, PO Box 2060, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jos M. Latour

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Giannini, A., Garrouste-Orgeas, M. & Latour, J.M. What’s new in ICU visiting policies: can we continue to keep the doors closed?. Intensive Care Med 40, 730–733 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3267-y

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