A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result of being held in physical restraints, as recorded in the patient’s ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...

A new Cochrane review finds that the use of physical restraints on care home residents can be reduced without increasing the risk of falls, when frontline care staff are empowered by supportive ...

MetroHealth has hired well-known Cleveland defense attorney Ian Friedman to help the hospital navigate the criminal ...

BALTIMORE-- Following an audit of 1,300 autopsies from in-custody deaths during Dr. David Fowler's tenure as chief medical examiner, an independent team is recommending about 100 cases involving ...

In an autopsy report conducted by the Office of the Medical Investigator, cocaine and ethanol were cited as contributing factors in Patrick Walsh's death.

Conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital — a secure state psychiatric center that houses mentally-ill men accused or convicted of crimes — are so bad that the hospital should be shuttered, according ...

CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson has released the full autopsy report on Tanisha Anderson after previously ruling her death a homicide. "The cause of sudden ...

A recent study from the Yale School of Medicine found that Black children are more likely to get physically restrained in emergency departments than children of other races, even after accounting for ...

An audit of state juvenile courts was hampered by a lack of records for the two primary objectives of the study — whether the courts were regularly offering pretrial diversion alternatives and whether ...