A comparison of Patient and Staff Attitudes toward Seclusion

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 173, Issue 5, 1985, Pages 282-286

  Soliday, Stanley M ^a  

^a Larned State Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ISOLATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECLUSION; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TORTURE;

EID: 0021812401     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198505000-00006     Document Type: Article

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