Frontiers | "Our Patients Are Different": Predictors of Seclusion and Restraint in 31 Psychiatric Hospitals
Background Research in recent years has demonstrated that the use of coercive measures such as seclusion and restraint differs very much between hospitals within a country. In 2015, a central register for all coercive measures in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has been established for 32 hospitals treating involuntary patients. The objective of the present study was to identify factors that determine the differences between these hospitals. Methods Data on coercive measures and diagnoses from the central register in 2015–2017 were linked with structural data of the 32 hospita...
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