Organización de las visitas de familiares en las unidades de cuidados intensivos en España

There are clear differences in the organization of visits between the studied ICU and no connection between the most common practice and what the survey, after evaluating the necessities of the relatives, recommends. These recommendations are: more visits, more flexibility of schedules, more integration of the relatives in the patients cares, broach the information from diverse disciplines, washing hands as the only necessary measure to be taken by the relatives.