Parental presence during treatment of injured and acutely ill children]

This review studies the literature on the effects of parental presence during treatment of injured and acutely ill children. Parents wish to stay with their child, and clinicians increasingly find it beneficial, probably correlated with increased experience. Studies indicate that the treatment of the child is not compromised by parental presence but only a few quasi-randomised, quantitative studies have been published, and many circumstances concerning parental presence have not been investigated sufficiently.