Table 2.

Analysis of risks and benefits of established OVP

	Relatives	Patients	Medical staff
Benefits	1. Respect to persons and their rights to be with beloved one 2. Building trust with medical staff and medicine as a whole 3. Chance to contribute into the process of care 4. Keeping full-time employment 5. Obtaining actual and full information about patient’s state 6. Ability to control the treatment and use of medicines	1. Minimization of stress and anxiety, getting psychological support 2. Possibility of enhanced care 3. Respect to persons 4. Involvement of relatives in the decision-making process	1. Improvement of labor discipline 2. Providing important information or medical history by relatives 3. Increase of the hospital status via implementing of patient-centered approach 4. Improvement of communication between relatives and medical staff
Possible risks	1. Psychological stress and harm 2. Burden of care 3. Necessity to obtain skills of care	1. Risk of intrahospital infections 2. Risk of intentional/non-intentional harm caused by visitors 3. Interference with patient privacy 4. Disturbing of neighboring patients 5. Violation of health data confidentiality	1. Excessive interference of relatives in treatment process 2. Increasing of burden related to communications with relatives’ organization and control of visiting 3. Increasing of stress related to relatives’ oversight of routine unite work 4. Hampering of the care-delivering process by relatives 5. Impediment of emergency procedures execution by visitor interruption 6. Necessity to organize the infrastructure and procedures for visiting and communications with physicians