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- Title
Deaths Due to Physical Restraint.
- Authors
Endrikat, Walter; Steinert, Tilman; Köpke, Sascha; Meyer, Gabriele; Berzlanovich, Andrea; Schöpfer, Jutta; Keil, Wolfgang
- Abstract
The article presents information on the doctors participating in healthcare services and their role in freedom-restraining measures (FRM) in the case of emergency. The issues related to the patients in elderly people homes and nursing homes are mentioned. The forensic-psychiatric perspective and the joint ventures of courts and rural district authorities in this regards is also discussed.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RESTRAINT of patients; CAUSES of death; NURSING care facilities; SELF-mutilation; LAW
- Publication
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 2012, Vol 109, Issue 20, p376
- ISSN
1866-0452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3238/arztebl.2012.0376a