Patient injury and physical restraint devices: a systematic review
- 4 February 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Vol. 41 (3), 274-282
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02501.x
Abstract
Objective. To investigate physical restraint‐related injuries. Areas of interest were the prevalence of injury, types of injuries, risk of sustaining an injury and specific restraint devices associ...This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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