A new report into conditions at the troubled emergency room at Lakeshore General Hospital has uncovered additional “shortcomings,” including concerns the staff resort “too quickly” to using physical ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

In 2015, a Quebec Superior Court judge ratified a $600,000 settlement in a class action filed by psychiatric patients and their families against the Centre hospitalier régional du Suroît in ...

Nearly one in four people in mental health wards in Ontario are restrained using straps, sedative drugs or other methods, according to a new report. The analysis by the Canadian Institute for Health ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

TORONTO – An Ontario nurses group released new guidelines Monday aimed at minimizing the use of potentially harmful restraints on residents of psychiatric hospitals, long-term care homes and other ...

Psychiatric care teams in northeastern Ontario are looking at ways to keep people out of restraints. Restraints include things like seclusion rooms, strapping people to a bed, and injecting ...

Dave Pedersen, a former paramedic who had worked with Eastern Health, believes restraints should be easier to use in ambulances. A former paramedic says a young man who died after he fled from an ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrains inpatients in its psychiatric unit at a rate higher than any other hospital in California — and more than 50 times the national average for inpatient ...

A HEALTH trust in Oxfordshire has defended its use of controversial face-down restraints, saying the technique is deployed only as "the very last resort". Use of the technique has dropped by 27 per ...