Reducing seclusion in acute psychiatric inpatient settings : a need for strong leadership
Background: Seclusion is of limited therapeutic value and can be a harmful and traumatic experience for psychiatric consumers. Many psychiatric facilities have made substantial efforts to eliminate seclusion or reduce this practice to negligible levels ...
S Elsom (9858647) +1 more
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Overview of Project BETA: Best Practices in Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation
[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(1):1–2.]
Garland H. Holloman, Scott L. Zeller
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Safety and Efficacy of GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in Adults With Epilepsy, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes
ABSTRACT Objective Managing obesity in patients with epilepsy is complicated by the weight‐gaining properties of essential antiseizure medications (ASMs) such as valproate and pregabalin. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of initiating glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1 RAs) in this population.
Hyoshin Son +3 more
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Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl +6 more
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Utility of the APE2 Score as a Diagnostic Tool for Autoimmune Encephalitis
ABSTRACT Objective To retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE2) score relative to clinician‐adjudicated autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and the Graus criteria in a tertiary neuroimmunology referral cohort, including antibody‐negative AE.
Bijoya Basu +3 more
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Educational Videos About Restraint and Seclusion [PDF]
The Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion (C.A.R.S.) is a group of stakeholders whose mission is to prevent the overuse of restraint and seclusion within the educational setting.
Hall, Jodie
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Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Cognitive Trajectories in Parkinson's Disease: Biomarker Impact
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the relationship of subjective cognitive concerns (SCC) with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), neurodegeneration, and Parkinson's disease (PD) and domain‐specific cognitive trajectories among cognitively unimpaired persons with de novo PD. Method Cognitively unimpaired participants with SCC (n = 294) and without SCC (
Francesca V. Lopez +5 more
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The practice of seclusion does not sit comfortably with contemporary Australian mental health policy that emphasizes the provision of mental health services in the least restrictive environment.
Koehn, Stefan. +3 more
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Nurses' knowledge about psychiatric patient seclusion in Jordan [PDF]
Back ground: Seclusion is used with or without restrain to confined violent clients who do not respond to less restrictive interventions and protect the client himself and others from harm.
abdul ghani abbas khudhur, Dr. Intisar
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture
On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork which was conducted among some Carmelite and Augustinian monastic groups (in France and in Italy), the aim of the present paper is to investigate the nature of relic-objects from an anthropological perspective ...
Francesca Sbardella
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