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The Role of Race on Restraint Use: Racial Bias in Healthcare, Psychiatric Diseases, and Utilization of Restraints (Part 2 in a 3-Part Series)
Restraint use, like other disparities in healthcare, can stem from the impact of racial bias in clinical encounters. A disparity, according to the Institute of Medicine in its Unequal Report, is a difference in the quality of healthcare provided to patients that is not attributable to the…
The Role of Race on Restraint Use: Background, Guidelines, and Adverse Outcomes (Part 1 in a 3-Part Series)
Restraints serve as a means to manage agitation and other behavioral disorders when attempts at de-escalation fail. National trends show a 50% increase in the number of ED visits for behavioral disorders from 2006 to 2011 (Capp et al., 2016). EDs in the United States see nearly 1.7 million agitated…
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