Psychiatric News (6/3) reports, “Rates of seclusion and restraint at American hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, fell between 2013 and 2017, at least among those with the highest rates,” research indicated. What’s more, “for-profit hospitals appear to use seclusion and restraint much less than nonprofit and government-owned facilities,” investigators found after examining “rates of seclusion and restraint at 1,642 acute care and psychiatric facilities using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Compare website,” then comparing “three types of hospitals – for-profit, nonprofit, and government-owned.” The findings were published online June 3 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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— “Use of Seclusion, Restraint in Hospitals Drops, But Better Data Needed to Get Complete Picture, Psychiatric News, June 3, 2020