Characteristics of patients in restraint: Six year analysis of the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP)

International Journal of Emergency Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 155-161

  Flannery Jr , Raymond B ^a   Rachlin, Stephen ^b   Walker, Andrew P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Department of Mental Health   (United States)

^b Meadowview Psychiatric Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

ASAP; Assaulted Staff Action Program; CISM; Critical Incident Stress Management; Psychiatric patients; Restraints

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; CRIME VICTIMS; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035380952     PISSN: 15224821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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