Table 2:

Family presence policies early in the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020) for all Canadian PICUs — results of literature search^*

Hospital, city, province	Policy information source	Document type(s)	No. of people at bedside		Switching practice to enable second parent or support^†	Approach to minor-age siblings	Approach to other non-parent family and visitors^‡	Response to family or visitors with infectious symptoms or risk^§	In-hospital mobility^¶
Hospital, city, province	Policy information source	Document type(s)	Patients without SARS-CoV-2 infection	Patients with confirmed or suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection	Switching practice to enable second parent or support^†	Approach to minor-age siblings	Approach to other non-parent family and visitors^‡		In-hospital mobility^¶
Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador	Health authority	Website, social media	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	NS	NS
IWK Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia	Hospital	Website	1	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Screened	NS
CHU de Québec–Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec	Hospital	Website	1	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	NS	NS
CIUSSS de l’Estrie–CHU Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec	Health authority	Website	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed	NS
Montreal Children’s Hospital; Montréal, Quebec	Hospital	Website	2 (strict)	NS	Unnecessary	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	NS	NS
CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Quebec	Hospital	Website	2 (strict)	NS	Unnecessary	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Not allowed	NS
Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston, Ontario	Hospital	Original policy, website	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Screened	NS
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario	Hospital	Website	2 (strict)	NS	Restricted times or frequencies	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Screened	NS
The Hospital for Sick Children, cardiac, Toronto, Ontario	Hospital	Website	1	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Screened	NS
The Hospital for Sick Children, medical–surgical, Toronto, Ontario	Hospital	Website	1	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Screened	NS
McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario	Hospital	Website	NS	1	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Children’s Hospital–London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario	Hospital	News release	1	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Not allowed	NS
Children’s Hospital–Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba	Hospital	Website	1	NS	NS	At manager’s discretion	NS	NS	NS
Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	Health authority	Original policy, website, news release, poster	1	1	Not allowed	Not allowed or only at end of life	Not allowed	Not allowed	Not allowed to leave PICU room
Stollery Children’s Hospital, cardiac, Edmonton, Alberta	Health authority	Original policy, website	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Not allowed	NS
Stollery Children’s Hospital, medical–surgical, Edmonton, Alberta	Health authority	Original policy, website	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Not allowed	NS
Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Alberta	Health authority	Original policy, website	NS	NS	NS	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Not allowed	NS
BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia	Hospital	Website	2 (strict)	NS	Unnecessary	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Screened	NS
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia	Health authority	Website	1	1	Restricted times or frequencies	Not allowed or only at end of life	NS	Not allowed	NS
No. not specified (%)	–	–	7 (37)	16 (84)	13 (68)	2 (11)	9 (47)	5 (26)	18 (95)

Note: NS = not specified, PICU = pediatric intensive care unit.
For full data, see Appendix 4, available at www.cmajopen.ca/content/10/3/E622/suppl/DC1.
↵* Abstracted and abbreviated from publicly accessible documents.
† Refers to a PICU or hospital practice in which the number at the bedside is limited to enable 1 caregiver to leave and be replaced by a different caregiver. In this table, switches were designated as “unnecessary” if both parents or 2 caregivers could be present at the same time.
↵† Including siblings over age 18 years.
↵§ Including respiratory infectious symptoms or suspected SARS-CoV-2. ”Screened” indicates that family members were screened for infection, without indication of the action taken if a visitor screened positive.
↵¶ Refers to whether caregivers were allowed to leave the PICU room and move around the hospital for any reason, including accessing basic needs.