An analysis of successful efforts to reduce the use of seclusion and restraint at a public psychiatric hospital

DC Donat - Psychiatric Services, 2003 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
… in reducing reliance on seclusion and restraint in a public psychiatric hospital in Virginia.
This hospital shares challenges faced by most public psychiatric hospitals—most notably, a …

Use of seclusion and restraint in public psychiatric hospitals: patient characteristics and facility effects

BB Way, SM Banks - Psychiatric Services, 1990 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
… in a hospital with a high rate of seclusion and restraint. The rate of seclusion and restraint in
the 23 hospitals … Both patient characteristics and the hospital of residence were needed to …

Interventions for reducing the use of seclusion in psychiatric facilities: review of the literature

CJ Gaskin, SJ Elsom, B Happell - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 - cambridge.org
… Owing to their complexity, interventions to reduce seclusion rates do not lend themselves
to … made in psychiatric settings to reduce the use of seclusion. We reviewed this literature. …

Incidence of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric hospitals: a literature review and survey of international trends

T Steinert, P Lepping, R Bernhardsgrütter… - … and psychiatric …, 2010 - Springer
… Forensic psychiatry was considered as being distinctive and so was not included in this …
other than psychiatric hospitals, eg, residential homes and non-psychiatric hospitals, were not …

The use of seclusion in psychiatry: a literature review

B Lendemeijer - Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 1997 - search.proquest.com
… review of the practice of seclusion in psychiatric inpatient facilities. Attention is paid to the
moral debate on seclusion. Most publications consider seclusion as a necessary intervention …

A study of the use of seclusion in an acute psychiatric service

SM El-Badri, G Mellsop - … New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
… However, whether it is appropriate to use seclusion as the main or only means of intervention
is open to discussion. Even if this point is perfectly valid it would be difficult to justify the …

Use of seclusion in a psychiatric acute inpatient unit

M Tunde-Ayinmode, J Little - Australasian Psychiatry, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
… an optimal rate of seclusion, because different … the use of seclusion and its correlates. In
order to achieve this, we set out to (i) identify the number of patients who experienced seclusion

Reasons for using seclusion and restraint in psychiatric inpatient care

R Kaltiala-Heino, C Tuohimäki, J Korkeila… - … of Law and Psychiatry, 2003 - Elsevier
… In the following, we use seclusion to indicate seclusion in a … Our data include all
seclusion/restraint episodes in a … to psychiatric hospitals responsible for all civil psychiatric

The reasons for using restraint and seclusion in psychiatric inpatient care: A nationwide 15-year study

A Keski-Valkama, E Sailas, M Eronen… - … journal of psychiatry, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… Data on the use of restraints and seclusion was collected … of all the Finnish psychiatric
hospitals. Data collection was … Centre for Welfare and Health to the psychiatric hospitals. The …

Efforts to reduce seclusion and restraint use in a state psychiatric hospital: a ten-year perspective

A Madan, JJ Borckardt, AL Grubaugh… - Psychiatric …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective The authors previously demonstrated an 82.3% reduction in seclusion and
restraint use at an inpatient psychiatric facility, largely attributable to changes to the physical …