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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"physical restraints"”.
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Physical Restraints in Residential Facilities: Staff Members’ Perspectives
The use of physical restraints among children and adolescents in residential facilities is a controversial and emotional topic, especially since children are four times more likely than adults to be restrained in a residential setting. In this study, staff members who have restrained children and …
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The Effects of Removing Physical Restraints from the Elderly in a Nursing Home
… dementia during the pre- assessment and post-physical restraint removal time period.<br> 2. Describe the frequency of serious and non-serious falls among the levels of dementia in the elderly as determined by the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale during the pre-assessment and the post physical …
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The Association Between Nurses' Perceptions and the Use of Physical Restraints in the Psychiatric Setting
Physical restraints are often utilized as an intervention in the treatment of psychiatric patients. Viable alternatives exist to address patient behavior that is disruptive or presents a threat to the safety of the patient or others in the milieu. Restraint is the intervention most often chosen to …
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Improving patient safety by decreasing restraint use
<p>Restraints are among the top 15 most frequently reported sentinel events (Cosper et al., 2013). An improvement project was undertaken to reduce restraint use on a medical/surgical acute care unit within a 200 bed not-for-profit teaching hospital. The project aimed to reduce physical restraint …
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Minimizing the Inappropriate Use of Physical Restraint
… safety by minimizing the inappropriate use of physical restraints from 45% to about 20% in the acute respiratory unit which caters to patients with acute respiratory issues, such as exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), patients with new or old tracheostomy, needing …
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The Use of Behavior Modification Techniques to Accomplish Dental Treatment on a Retarded Boy : Two Case Studies
… in Case 1. During appointment nineteen selective physical restraints were introduced. These were used through appointment twenty six. The experimental design consisted of baseline, treatment, and treatment plus selective restraint conditions. Findings: Case 1 - Our results show that the patient's …
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A medicaid resident assessment-based statewide analysis of intermediate care nursing homes
… (staff intervention, nutrition/food service, physical environment, and community relations) were each reduced further to two subdimensions. Factors influencing quality were also delineated. The new model was then used to tie specific measurable indicators to the overall quality construct. …
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Non-Psychiatric Hospitalization For Patients With Psychotic Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study
… found to be associated with length-of-stay like physical restraints (64% longer), psychiatrist consult (20% longer) and outpatient appointment in the previous six months (10% shorter). Results suggest specific patient characteristics and care processes are highly related to length-of-stay and …
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The PASS study: performance assessment system for success In residential aged care
… indicators (catheters, falls, pressure ulcers, physical restraints, and urinary tract infections, registered and enrolled nurses and caregivers hours as well as resident days) monthly for 15-months. Results: Logistic analysis revealed a statistically significant impact from the QIAintervention …
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A pixel-parallel architecture for graph cuts inference
… sequential implementation. Next, to overcome the physical restraints of hardware resource and memory size, and to accelerate graph cuts on larger images, we developed methods to divide images into virtual regions, which can then be efficiently processed on a physical processor array. We then …