Management of disturbed behaviour in a psychiatric intensive care unit: Views of staff on options for intervention

Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-89

  Bennett, Richard ^a   Ramakrishna, Vishwanath ^b   Maganty, Dinesh ^b  

^a Oleaster   (United Kingdom)

^b South Birmingham Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

forensic; mentally disordered offenders; NICE guidelines; PICU; seclusion; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011444682     PISSN: 17426464     EISSN: 17442206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742646410000257     Document Type: Article

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