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Crowding and Aggression on Inpatient Psychiatric Wards

Psychiatric Services, 1999
The association between crowding and aggressive behavior among psychiatric inpatients was investigated. Aggressive incidents were documented on two closed psychiatric wards between February 1 and December 15, 1996. A modest correlation between number of patients on the ward and number of aggressive incidents per patient was found.
H L, Nijman, G, Rector
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Developing and running an adolescent inpatient ward

Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition, 2011
Advocates of adolescent health have long argued for the development of dedicated inpatient units. In the UK, many recently built children's hospitals have included adolescent wards, with further wards actively planned for new builds. In Australia, adolescent wards have been established in all but one of the major children's hospitals and will be a ...
Donald, Payne, Andrew, Kennedy, Veronika, Kretzer, Emma, Turner, Penny, Shannon, Russell, Viner   +5 more
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Restraint and seclusion in psychiatric inpatient wards

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2005
Despite the controversy over the use of seclusion and restraint, these measures are commonly used to treat and manage disruptive and violent behaviour. This review summarizes recent research on the use of seclusion and restraint, and measures taken to reduce their use.Lately, prominent international recommendations have aimed to restrict the use of ...
Sailas, Eila S., Wahlbeck, Kristian
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A Tentative Model of Aggression on Inpatient Psychiatric Wards

Psychiatric Services, 1999
Violence in psychiatric hospitals threatens the safety and well-being of patients and staff members. The determinants and correlates of inpatient aggression are not well understood. The authors present an explanatory model of aggressive behavior that attempts to integrate patient, staff, and ward variables.
H L, Nijman, J M, aCampo, D P, Ravelli, H L, Merckelbach   +3 more
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Homicide between Inpatients in a Mental Institution Ward

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1993
Although violence in psychiatric hospital wards is of increasing concern, homicide is a rare event. Among the exceptions is a chronic schizophrenic patient, who murdered a fellow demented inpatient. Overcrowding, staff organization, and poor compliance with therapy are among the known risk factors for violence occurring in this case.
FERRACUTI, Stefano, G. Palermo, MANFREDI, Mario   +2 more
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Queueing Models for Patient-Flow Dynamics in Inpatient Wards

Operations Research, 2018
Long delays for patients waiting to be admitted to inpatient units are currently the standard state of affairs in urban hospitals in the United States and around the world. To alleviate congestion, hospital management seeks ways to increase efficiency by improving the flow of patients between the different hospital units.
Jing Dong 0007, Ohad Perry
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SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR ON AN INPATIENT WARD

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1978
Suicidal and self-destructive behavior on a psychiatric inpatient service are said to be related to the degree of staff demoralization and dissension. Staff factors that may permit or encourage self-destructive acts include poor communications, staff disagreements, scapegoating of patients, poor staff judgment, staff self-preoccupation, and reversal of
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Preventing Assaults on a Psychiatric Inpatient Ward

Psychiatric Services, 1984
Although appropriate evaluation, management, and treatment of violence-prone patients will tend to reduce the incidence of aggressive acts on a psychiatric ward, such measures are not enough to prevent eruptions of violence. The author discusses several specific preventive steps that staff of psychiatric units can take to reduce the likelihood that ...
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Wards and inpatient areas

2012
The inpatient area of the practice primarily contain patient accommodation, as well as space for support activities and cleaning, together with an isolation area where space allows. It is important to take time to consider what requirements are essential if space is limited.
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Factitious disorder on an inpatient psychiatry ward.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2006
The authors present 6 cases of factitious disorder seen on a general adult inpatient psychiatry unit of a university hospital. They review the clinical features of this disorder and suggest that factitious disorder is much more prevalent among psychiatric inpatients than is commonly recognized.
Robert J, Gregory, Shefali, Jindal
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