A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has highlighted the widespread use of physical restraints among caregivers of older adults with advanced dementia living at home, revealing a need for better ...
A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has highlighted the widespread use of physical restraints among caregivers of older adults with advanced dementia living at home, revealing a need for better ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Point 4 of this article has been modified from its original version to clarify speakers’ comments. Since passage of healthcare reforms in OBRA 1987, the incidence rate of resident ...
One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...
The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...
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.
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 ...
A North Carolina hospital is making excessive use of patient restraints, a practice that has been largely discontinued at most hospitals and healthcare institutions as unsafe and harmful to patients, ...
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