Psychiatric patients: premises liability and predicting patient elopement.
Hospitals, says the author, need to be aggressive about properly supervising psychiatric patients and protecting themselves against potential liability involving the actions of such patients. The characteristics of elopers and preventing elopement are also discussed in this article.
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Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Southfield, MI, USA.
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