Healthcare Dive

Residents more likely to suffer physical restraints, bedsores at bankrupt nursing homes: report

Residents of bankrupt long-term healthcare facilities are more likely to suffer adverse care outcomes, according to a new working paper released this week. Researchers found patients were more likely ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Quality Improvement Project Eliminates Physical Restraint Use in Psychiatric ED

Reduction in the use of physical restraints was seen after implementation of an evidence-based intervention program. Between December 2024 and January 2025 no physical restraint episodes occurred in ...
The Guardian

Use of physical restraint on mental health patients at 'disturbing levels'

Nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint on mental health patients in England were recorded in one year, with more than 3,000 in the "dangerous" face-down position, according to figures released ...
Portland Press Herald

Advocates: Schools can do more to avoid physical restraint of students

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Healio

Care team ‘huddles’ reduced physical restraint events at children’s hospital

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...
The Conversation

Physical restraint doesn’t protect patients – there are better alternatives

It’s an uncomfortable image to consider: an elderly person – perhaps somebody you know – physically restrained. Maybe an aged care resident deemed likely to fall has been bound to his chair using ...
Chicago Tribune

CPS’ ‘blatant violation of state law’ over physical restraint of students alleged by State Board of Education: ‘Unconscionable’

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...
Houston Chronicle

Patient deaths raise debate over physical restraint

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...
Psychology Today

Let's Eliminate Physical Restraints in Group Homes

In April 2015, Justin Sangiuliano, a seventeen-year-old diagnosed with Autism, was physically restrained at his group home in Oshawa, Canada. To control an aggressive outburst, two staff members ...
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Unrestrained? New York’s highest court weighs whether lawyers can use special petition to get the incarcerated out of shackles in hospitals

New York state’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday in a case where NYPD officers shackled an incarcerated, mentally ill ...
Sun Journal

Advocates: Schools can do more to avoid physical restraint

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