Research question
How should hospitals justify, review, and terminate restrictions on family presence after the emergency phase has ended?
Why it matters
Rules introduced as temporary safeguards can persist without a clear evidentiary threshold, review date, or route for affected families to challenge them.
Evidence & method
Policy and guidance reviewRights and proportionality analysisCitation audit
Public outputs
Peer-reviewed 2026
Visitor restrictions beyond the emergency phase: lessons from Japan for proportionality and sunset mechanisms
Journal of Medical Ethics · DOI 10.1136/jme-2026-111889
Commentary 2026
A right that exists only as a billing rule is not yet a right
BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics Blog
Translation 2026
Japanese translation of the BMJ ethics commentary
Zenodo
Suggested citation
Kujo, George. “Visitor restrictions beyond the emergency phase: lessons from Japan for proportionality and sunset mechanisms.” Journal of Medical Ethics (2026). DOI: 10.1136/jme-2026-111889.
Disclosure
Independent research. No institutional affiliation is claimed on this page. Project-specific funding, conflicts, limitations, and corrections will be recorded with each output.
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