Restraining cognitively impaired nursing home residents.
Patterns of physical restraint use were measured according to time of day, location on the unit, and persons in the environment on three units of one long-term care facility. An in-depth examination clarifies aspects of temporal, environmental and social conditions under which restraint use typically occurs in cognitively impaired and agitated nursing home residents.
Cohen-Mansfield
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Marx
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Werner
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D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors