Restraining Patients

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This paper answers two questions related to the JCAHO guidelines on the use of patient restraints. The analysis concludes that all health care institutions must remain aware of reasoned and well-intentioned disagreement among medical professionals on some issues relative to the use of patient restraints. The analysis claims that the new criteria are intended to reduce substantially the use of patient restraints and to reduce completely the inappropriate use of patient restraints in hospital environments. The paper includes an experiment conducted at the Wellmont Health System.

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"While little philosophical opposition exists to the new JCAHO criteria for the use of patient restraints in hospital environments, serious concerns have been expressed with respect to the liabilities to which hospitals may be exposed as a consequence of the implementation of the new criteria. One area of liability exposure could derive from the use of patient restraints outside the framework of the JCAHO criteria but within specific situations were restraint used was deemed necessary by institutional professional staff. A second area of liability exposure could derive from injuries to patients or others because patient restraints were not used even though such non use was consistent with the JCAHO criteria."

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