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222 gap statements mined from Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 1,528 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • We suggest that the organisational and contextual factors that shape relative involvement need to be studied further.

    Facilitators and Barriers of Relatives' Involvement in Care of Patients With Acquired Brain Injury or Malignant Brain Tumour: Scoping Review · 2026 · DOI

  • Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is a complex process that also affects family members, yet their perspectives remain understudied.

    Family Members' Experiences of Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation in Intensive Care: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Strengthening professional self-efficacy may support more flexible visitation; longitudinal and intervention studies are warranted.

    Beliefs and Attitudes toward Expanded Visitation among Intensive Care Unit Nurses : A Latent Profile Analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • The study faced challenges in terms of limited resources and infrastructure in the Indian healthcare system. The study had to address ethical and medicolegal concerns raised by clinicians.

    Family-led post-ICU discharge intervention for tracheostomized patients in India: Feasibility and formative impact evaluation · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on the summative evaluation of the AIIMS ICU Rehabilitation intervention. The study suggests that initial scale-up is best suited for neurotrauma, post-neurosurgical stroke, and hypoxic brain injury dyads.

    Family-led post-ICU discharge intervention for tracheostomized patients in India: Feasibility and formative impact evaluation · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on how parents of children with CHD experience and perceive their participation during pre- and postoperative monitoring of vital signs.

    Parental participation during children’s vital sign monitoring in connection with surgery for congenital heart disease · 2026 · DOI

  • Future studies should develop and evaluate intervention programs designed to improve ICU nurses' informative and affiliative communication competencies.

    Factors Influencing Care Satisfaction among Family Members of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit · 2026 · DOI

  • The relationships between family care satisfaction and health literacy, nurse communication style, and hospital physical environment are not well understood. Prior studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the factors influencing family care satisfaction.

    Factors Influencing Care Satisfaction among Family Members of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit · 2026 · DOI

  • Structured training programs for clinical staff should be developed to ensure fidelity and standardization in delivering the nursing snippet-based intervention. Furthermore, periodic booster sessions and continuous access to digital educational content are recommended to sustain long-term parental outcomes.

    Evaluation of nursing snippet-based intervention on parents’ burden and self-efficacy towards caring for their children undergoing limb lengthening surgery · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of research on the reconfiguration of care responsibilities in Korean society after the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for a future signals analysis approach to identify the major agendas of domestic labor and childcare.

    Reconstructing the Division of Care Responsibilities: Analysis of Future Signals using Online News on Domestic Work and Childcare · 2026 · DOI

  • Although family resilience helps mitigate these issues, systematic research on experiences and processes of family resilience operating in ICU family members is still lacking.

    Family Resilience Among Family Members of Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Qualitative Meta‐Synthesis · 2026 · DOI

  • Little is known about the practice of offering hybrid home visiting services. There is a gap in understanding the effects of hybrid home visiting services on family-level outcomes.

    Balancing In-Person and Virtual Home Visits: a Descriptive Analysis of Family-Level Outcomes · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of effective strategies to support caregivers during the high-risk transition period. The need for feasible and effective interventions to prevent repeat ED visits and support youth mental health outcomes.

    Feasibility of Supportive Telephone Outreach for Caregivers after Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to analyze the effects of alternative modes of involvement in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Care without co‐presence: Crafting alternative modes of involvement in UK intensive care in times of COVID‐19 · 2026 · DOI

  • Family presence during resuscitation (FPDR) has been associated with potential emotional benefits for patients’ families; however, its implementation remains controversial due to concerns among healthcare providers.

    Healthcare providers’ perspectives on family presence during resuscitation in a Palestinian tertiary hospital · 2026 · DOI

  • Although advances in congenital and paediatric cardiac care have improved survival, dysfunctional team dynamics remain an underrecognised contributor to adverse events, inefficiency, clinician distress, and loss of family trust.

    Team dysfunction and patient outcomes in paediatric heart care: communication, culture, and system-based interventions in high-risk clinical teams · 2026 · DOI

  • Additionally, sparse data during the 6-month follow-up period limited our ability to detect postexposure differences in health outcomes based on the EPT request.

    Caregivers with poorer health are less likely to engage in an intervention to prepare for their own health care emergency · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the implementation of humanization in nursing practice, - The gap is due to various challenges, including lack of resources and structural problems in the healthcare…

    A IMPORTÂNCIA DA HUMANIZAÇÃO NO FORTALECIMENTO DO VÍNCULO ENTRE ENFERMAGEM, PACIENTE E FAMÍLIA NO PROCESSO DE CUIDADO · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of synthesis of the Escala FACES' contributions to clinical reasoning and nursing interventions - The need for a comprehensive review of the Escala FACES' use in nursing practice…

    A ESCALA FACES (I A IV) COMO INSTRUMENTO DE AVALIAÇÃO DO FUNCIONAMENTO FAMILIAR EM ENFERMAGEM: UM PROTOCOLO DE SCOPING REVIEW · 2026 · DOI

  • La falta de atención integral que incluya la salud mental desde el ingreso a urgencias en México. La necesidad de fortalecer la formación de profesionales de la salud sensibilizados en sepsis y salud mental.

    Salud mental en sobrevivientes de sepsis: desafíos para su atención en el servicio de urgencias médicas en México · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the psychological impact of home CPAP or NIV on parents and families - The current research is limited…

    Has any research been conducted on the psychological impact on parents and families of children receiving Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or Non-Invasive Ventilation at home? · 2026 · DOI

  • No se encontraron estudios que caractericen los conocimientos, actitudes y experiencias de familiares de pacientes atendidos por intento suicida en el contexto dominicano.

    Conocimientos, actitudes y experiencias familiares ante el intento suicida: estudio mixto en un hospital regional dominicano · 2026 · DOI

  • The study had a limited sample size of 16 specialist family therapists, - The study did not incorporate family perspectives, - The study was limited to a specific setting, the Bouverie…

    Refining a Single Session Thinking Approach for Trauma-Affected Families: A Delphi Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should incorporate family perspectives to further validate and refine the model, - Future research should examine the effectiveness of the adapted SST approach in different…

    Refining a Single Session Thinking Approach for Trauma-Affected Families: A Delphi Study · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identified challenges in peer mentoring across three domains: technical-functional (hospital-related rehabilitation overload, adequacy of matching and timing), emotional (managing rejection, shattering the illusion of complete recovery, appearance-related avoidance), and cognitive (discrepancies in worldview and recognizing family’s role during the acute phase of hospitalization) - some of which have not…

    Peer mentorship for physically injured veterans in healthcare settings during ongoing military conflict: benefits and barriers · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is a complex process that also affects family members, yet their perspectives remain understudied (“Family Members' Experiences of Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation in Intensive…”, 2026); (2) Strengthening professional self-efficacy may support more flexible visitation; longitudinal and intervention studies are warranted (“Beliefs and Attitudes toward Expanded Visitation among Intensive Care Unit…”, 2026); (3) Future research should focus on the summative evaluation of the AIIMS ICU Rehabilitation intervention (“Family-led post-ICU discharge intervention for tracheostomized patients in…”, 2026); (4) There is a lack of research on how parents of children with CHD experience and perceive their participation during pre- and postoperative monitoring of vital signs (“Parental participation during children’s vital sign monitoring in connection…”, 2026); (5) Future studies should develop and evaluate intervention programs designed to improve ICU nurses' informative and affiliative communication competencies (“Factors Influencing Care Satisfaction among Family Members of Patients in the…”, 2026). 222 gap statements have been mined from Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 1,528 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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