WASHINGTON (AP) -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed ...

Fact or myth? Understand how progressive psychiatric units enhance safety and preserve personal dignity by efforts to reduce ...

February 4, 2008 – Newark, N.J. – A new study in the journal Perspectives in Psychiatric Care reveals that when an outside professional consultation team worked closely with the staff, providing ...

A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...

Vitalité Health Network says it will take action to prevent the kind of mistreatment of psychiatric patients that was detailed in an ombud report this week — treatment that one relative called ...

Probe was initiated following complaints from families and patients at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in northern New ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Nearly two years after Minnesota pledged to eliminate the use of mechanical restraints and seclusion at facilities for people with developmental disabilities, a court-appointed monitor has found that ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

Though caregivers of pediatric dental patients reported mixed feelings about the use of physical restraints, they should be reserved for exceptional circumstances, according to a study published ...

New Brunswick's ombud found psychiatric patients were forced to urinate and defecate on the floor and faced sexual and ...