More than 800 of every 1,000 hours psychiatric patients were hospitalized at a rural North Carolina hospital from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, were spent in some kind of physical restraint. That ...

A Seattle Times investigation shows at least five patient deaths tied to spit hoods over the past decade, yet 15 states still ...

Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...

2002-03-21 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- A 79-year-old psychiatric patient was accidentally strangled by straps that bound her to a bed. Another patient died after he was tied spread-eagle to a mattress ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

A new report into conditions at the troubled emergency room at Lakeshore General Hospital has uncovered additional “shortcomings,” including concerns the staff resort “too quickly” to using physical ...

A hospital in central Pennsylvania has been cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health after a patient died while being placed in restraints. An investigation into Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital’s ...

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

New research sheds light on the characteristics of patients who are placed in physical restraint while receiving emergency room care. Most patients restrained in emergency departments fall into two ...

At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit with batons, drugged, and left strapped to beds up to 12 hours ...

The benefits and rationale of conscious sedation with restraint are discussed. This approach is described to aid parents in the decision-process of whether general anaesthesia or conscious sedation ...