Clinical and demographic characteristics of secluded and mechanically restrained mentally ill patients: a retrospective study

• Main Authors: Chanoch Miodownik (Author), Michael D. Friger (Author), Eyal Orev (Author), Yisroel Gansburg (Author), Nadav Reis (Author), Vladimir Lerner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Restraint or seclusion measures in acute psychiatric care are used as a last resort when all other methods for removal of physical threat have failed. The purpose of this study is to find a correlation between coercive measures, demographic characteristics within this patient gro...