to calculate and compare the frequency and duration of the physical restraint and isolation of psychiatric patients in each country. Data for Japan was based on sources including national ...

Patients undergoing treatment at psychiatric hospitals in Japan are ... resort to a kind of care heavily dependent on physical restraint,” Hasegawa said. “It should be recognized first ...

Two cases, two hospitals, both cleared of safety violations. But when a patient is killed and a nurse is left in critical ...

(CN) — Duke University law students argued to the Fourth Circuit Friday that extensive periods of restraint and seclusion violated an involuntarily committed ... Despite outlining his deteriorating ...

Calling the dangerous conditions in for-profit psychiatric hospitals an emergency, California’s top lawmaker on the state Senate Health Committee proposed legislation to quickly impose stricter ...

Giving evidence on Monday, locum Dr Ahmad Alastal said he had initially assessed the patient ... a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), where a further incident led to restraint and medication ...