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Home<\/a> \/ Patient Experience<\/a> \/ Key Clinical Questions<\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” gap=”20″][vc_column width=”3\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1599596059091{padding: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]a. Of the 43 institutions with information about end-of-life exceptions to visitor restriction policies, only 12 institutions specified a definition for end-of-life. The most commonly used definition (7\/12) included the language “Likely to die \u2013 days, or unlikely to survive the hospital stay.” 3 institutions defined end-of-life as “withdrawal of life support or care,” 4 institutions deferred to the clinical care team on a “case-by-case basis” to determine an appropriate definition, and 4 institutions noted their end-of-life visitor restriction policy exceptions were not limited to patients on “palliative care” or “comfort care” pathways. 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