The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress.

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

This submission on informed consent is based on Human Rights Watch’s research on the use of chemical restraints in aged care facilities carried out between 2018 and 2021 in Australia.[1] Chemical ...

California Atty. Gen. Says Nursing Director Controlled Patients with Drugs. Jan. 5, 2010— -- What happened in a bucolic nursing home nestled in the California mountains starting in 2003 shocked ...

Until a few years ago, Anita Springsteen never gave much thought to the idea that medication could also be a weapon. Not until the day it happened before her eyes, to someone close to her. On that ...

More than 14,300 patient deaths in medical facilities and hospitals across the U.S. involved them being placed in restraint or seclusion, a USA TODAY Network-New York investigation found. The newly ...

Caring for people living with dementia has always required balancing safety and autonomy: We often want autonomy for ourselves but safety for others; and that has historically prevailed in senior ...