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References from Seclusion and Restraint in Emergency Settings: A Narrative Review. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Improving the management of acutely agitated patients in the emergency department through implementation of Project BETA (Best Practices in the Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation).
10.1002/emp2.12138 · 2020 · External reference
Variability in psychiatric facility seclusion and restraint rates as reported on hospital compare site.
10.1176/appi.ps.202000011 · 2020 · External reference
Prevalence and variability of restrictive care practice use (physical restraint, seclusion and chemical restraint) in adult mental health inpatient settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
10.1111/jocn.17041 · 2024 · External reference
Restraint and seclusion practices and policies in U.S. forensic psychiatric hospitals.
2023 · External reference
Healthcare staff’s experiences of using manual physical restraint: a meta-synthesis review.
10.1111/nhs.13045 · 2023 · External reference
Use and avoidance of seclusion and restraint: consensus statement of the american association for emergency psychiatry project BETA seclusion and restraint workgroup.
10.5811/westjem.2011.9.6867 · 2012 · External reference
Effects of seclusion and restraint in adult psychiatry: a systematic review.
10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00491 · 2019 · External reference
Incidence of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric hospitals: a literature review and survey of international trends.
10.1007/s00127-009-0132-3 · 2010 · External reference
Comparison of coercive practices in worldwide mental healthcare: overcoming difficulties resulting from variations in monitoring strategies.
10.1192/bjo.2023.613 · 2024 · External reference
The characteristics and prevalence of agitation in an urban county emergency department.
10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.06.001 · 2018 · External reference
Investigating racial disparities in chemical and physical restraint of mental health patients in the emergency department.
10.1007/s40615-023-01863-4 · 2025 · External reference
Characteristics of patients restrained in the emergency department and evaluation for disparities in care.
10.1016/j.jemermed.2023.05.008 · 2023 · External reference
Restraints utilization in a psychiatric emergency room.
10.1080/00207411.2017.1295781 · 2017 · External reference
Resource utilization with the use of seclusion and restraint in a dedicated emergency psychiatric service.
10.14423/smj.0000000000000885 · 2018 · External reference
Risk for physical restraint or seclusion in the psychiatric emergency service (PES).
10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2013.09.009 · 2014 · External reference
Disparities in care: the role of race on the utilization of physical restraints in the emergency setting.
10.1111/acem.14092 · 2020 · External reference
Risk management or racial bias? The disparate use of restraints in the emergency department of an urban safety-net hospital.
10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2024.06.010 · 2024 · External reference
Association of race/ethnicity and other demographic characteristics with use of physical restraints in the emergency department.
10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.35241 · 2021 · External reference
A randomized controlled comparison of seclusion and mechanical restraint in inpatient settings.
10.1176/ps.62.11.pss6211_1310 · 2011 · External reference
Patients’ attitudes towards and acceptance of coercion in psychiatry.
10.1016/j.psychres.2017.12.029 · 2018 · External reference
About the use of seclusion in psychiatry: the patients’ point of view.
10.1016/s0013-7006(04)95440-1 · 2004 · External reference
Subjective distress after seclusion or mechanical restraint: one-year follow-up of a randomized controlled study.
10.1176/appi.ps.201200315 · 2013 · External reference
Measuring the impacts of seclusion on psychiatry inpatients and the effectiveness of a pilot single-session post-seclusion counselling intervention.
10.1111/inm.12023 · 2013 · External reference
The relationship between seclusion and restraint use and childhood abuse among psychiatric inpatients.
10.1177/0886260510363419 · 2011 · External reference
Seclusion and restraint in patients with schizophrenia: clinical and biographical correlates.
10.1097/nmd.0b013e3180302af6 · 2007 · External reference
Seclusion: uses and complications.
10.1176/ajp.135.10.1210 · 1978 · External reference
Effect of seclusion on mental health status in hospitalized psychiatric populations: a trial emulation using observational data.
10.1177/01632787231164489 · 2024 · External reference
Physical and chemical restraints.
10.1016/j.emc.2009.07.003 · 2009 · External reference
An unusual death of a patient in seclusion.
1983 · External reference
Use of physical restraints in the emergency department: rationale, risks, and benefits.
2023 · External reference
Adverse effects associated with physical restraint.
10.1177/070674370304800509 · 2003 · External reference
Physical harm and death in the context of coercive measures in psychiatric patients: a systematic review.
10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00400 · 2019 · External reference
The use of seclusion in emergency medicine.
10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2005.05.001 · 2005 · External reference
Injuries to mental health staff during restraint on the increase.
2017 · External reference
Is it safe? The restraint chair compared to traditional methods of restraint: a three hospital study.
10.1016/j.apnu.2018.04.003 · 2018 · External reference
A prospective study of the complication rate of use of patient restraint in the emergency department.
10.1016/s0736-4679(02)00738-2 · 2003 · External reference
Patients’ and staff members’ experiences of restrictive practices in acute mental health in-patient settings: systematic review and thematic synthesis.
10.1192/bjo.2022.574 · 2022 · External reference
Investigating the association of mechanical restraint with somatic harmful outcomes: national register-based study.
10.1192/bjo.2024.799 · 2024 · External reference
Physical and mechanical restraint in psychiatric units: perceptions and experiences of nursing staff.
10.1016/j.apnu.2017.11.027 · 2018 · External reference
Incidence of deep vein thrombosis in restrained psychiatric patients.
10.1016/j.psym.2013.04.001 · 2014 · External reference
Mechanical restraints on the medical wards: are protective devices safe?
10.2105/ajph.79.6.735 · 1989 · External reference
Psychiatric patients’ perception of physical restraint.
10.1111/acps.12501 · 2016 · External reference
Seclusion versus mechanical restraint in psychiatry—a systematic review.
10.1017/neu.2019.22 · 2019 · External reference
Physical restraint use in adult patients presenting to a general emergency department.
10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.06.020 · 2019 · External reference
Preventing restraint deaths.
1998 · External reference
Review of the medical and legal literature on restraint chairs.
10.1016/j.jflm.2015.04.009 · 2015 · External reference
Evaluation of the ventilatory effects of a restraint chair on human subjects.
10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.12.002 · 2011 · External reference
Manual restraint of adult psychiatric inpatients: a literature review.
10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01475.x · 2009 · External reference
A 26-year study of restraint fatalities among children and adolescents in the United States: a failure of organizational structures and processes.
10.1007/s10566-021-09646-w · 2022 · External reference
Patient experience of physical restraint in the acute setting: a systematic review of the qualitative research evidence.
10.1080/01612840.2021.1978597 · 2022 · External reference
Patients’ experiences with physical holding and mechanical restraint in the psychiatric care: an interview study.
10.1080/08039488.2022.2087001 · 2023 · External reference
Chemical agents for the sedation of agitated patients in the ED: a systematic review.
10.1016/j.ajem.2016.09.025 · 2016 · External reference
The psychopharmacology of agitation: consensus statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Project BETA Psychopharmacology Workgroup.
10.5811/westjem.2011.9.6866 · 2012 · External reference
Metabolic acidosis in restraint-associated cardiac arrest: a case series.
10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00164.x · 1999 · External reference
Variations in definitions used for describing restrictive care practices (seclusion and restraint) in adult mental health inpatient units: a systematic review and content analysis.
10.1007/s00127-024-02739-6 · 2025 · External reference