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. 2022 Aug 19;30(11):9101–9108. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07298-7

Table 3.

Access to social contacts by treatment location and country

Sweden UK
Overall (n = 141) (n = 97)
Social contact not affected 11 (7.8%) 9 (9.3%)
Social contact affected 130 (92.2%) 88 (90.7%)
Treated at hospital (n = 48) (n = 45)
Visitors are allowed 2 (4.2%) 4 (8.9%)
Only a few visitors are allowed 7 (14.6%) 9 (20.0%)
No visitors are allowed 33 (68.8%) 26 (57.8%)
Fear of contracting the virus from visitors 3 (6.3%) 5 (11.1%)
Visitors fearful of transmitting the virus to the participant 7 (14.6%) 12 (26.7%)
Other 5 (10.4%) 1 (2.2%)
Treated at home (n = 120) (n = 81)
People are allowed to visit as before 13 (10.8%) 16 (19.8%)
Only allow a few visitors 71 (59.2%) 41 (50.6%)
Doesn’t allow visitors because of fear of contracting the virus 40 (33.3%) 28 (34.6%)
Fear transmitting the virus to visitors 2 (1.7%) 4 (4.9%)