Use of coercive physical measures in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital in Greece

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 402-411

  Bilanakis, Nikolaos ^a   Kalampokis, Georgios ^b   Christou, Konstantinos ^b   Peritogiannis, Vaios ^b  

^a General Hospital of Arta   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

coercive measures; involuntary admissions; restraint; seclusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ISOLATION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954920577     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764009106620     Document Type: Article

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