Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

Restrictive behavioral interventions in acute psychiatric settings have been shown to pose an unknown but potentially fatal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained psychiatric patients at its inpatient unit at one of the highest rates in the nation ...

Mechanical restraint is linked to a higher risk for venous thromboembolism than forced sedation in inpatients with ...

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An Australian nurse's years of jiu-jitsu training were put to the test when an aggressive patient lashed out. The video is ...

Patients brought to the emergency department (ED) under police transport are more likely to be restrained in the ED, a new Yale study finds. And it may explain, at least in part, why racial ...

Mechanical restraint is associated with a small increased short term risk of blood clots among inpatients at psychiatric hospitals, finds a Danish study published by The BMJ today. Although the ...

A study published in the most recent issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), journal showed an increased risk of restraint use in Black patients compared with white patients in the emergency ...

A mental health advocacy group this week said the city-owned psychiatric hospital in Southeast Washington has increased its use of restraint and seclusion on patients despite regulations designed to ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

Patients brought to the emergency department (ED) under police transport are more likely to be restrained in the ED, a new Yale study finds. And it may explain, at least in part, why racial ...