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Voices From the Frontline: Patients' Perspectives of Restraint and Seclusion Use

Date:

September 1994

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Description

A second report containing the results of the largest survey of former psychiatric patients reported in the literature found that patients who were restrained or secluded during their inpatient stays overwhelmingly report these interventions were used illegally and that they were often poorly treated, abused or injured when restrained or secluded.