Restraints increasingly used on psychiatric patients in Switzerland
Patients with psychiatric disorders are increasingly subjected to restrictive measures in Swiss hospitals, according to a Tages-Anzeiger report. Experts and judicial authorities view the trend with concern. Committing patients against their will, tying them to their bed, isolating them in a room and administering forced medication are methods that have become relatively common at psychiatric clinics in Switzerland, according to the Swiss-German language newspaper. The proportion of cases in which at least one restraint measure was applied reached 11.5% in 2021, compared with 9.4% in 2019, the ...