Restraints Used On One in Four Psych Patients
Submitted on August 23, 2011
CBC News - August 23, 2011
Nearly one in four people in mental health wards in Ontario are restrained using straps, sedative drugs or other methods, according to a new report...Psychiatric patients were much more likely to have experienced a control intervention at a general hospital than at a psychiatric hospital..."Most people who are admitted to hospital for mental illness actually come through the emergency department..."
