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Novel Approaches Needed: A Suggestion for an Alternative to Mechanical Restraint in the 21st Century

2024-06-26

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Despite many calls to reduce or eliminate the use of mechanical restraint, it is still widely used in many countries. Studies using patient interviews have a very clear message: Patients experience mechanical restraint as the most humiliating intervention. There seems to be a lack of alternatives with violent patients. We developed a method using 30 kg bags, originally designed for fitness purposes, to be attached...

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Literature Corpus work: 7d599490-1c65-51e5-b195-41c16554034b
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202406.1850.v1

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