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ArticleHospital pediatrics2021

Patient Risk Factors for Violent Restraint Use in a Children's Hospital Medical Unit.

Akaninyene Noah, Gabriela Andrade, Dawn DeBrocco, Michelle Dunn, Katherine Herz, Diana Worsley, Pete Camacho, Stephanie K Doupnik

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Article in Hospital pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Akaninyene NoahCenter for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness and PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gabriela AndradeDepartments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Dawn DeBroccoDepartments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Michelle DunnDivision of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Katherine HerzDivision of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Diana WorsleyCenter for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness and PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pete CamachoBiomedical and Health Informatics.
Stephanie K DoupnikCenter for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness and PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania doupniks@email.chop.edu.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Continuity of Mental Health Care after Youth Hospitalization for Suicide Attempt - Administrative SupplementK23MH115162 · NIMH · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DOUPNIK, STEPHANIE · 2018 to 2021
$794k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH115162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesTo inform efforts to reduce violent restraint use, we examined risk factors for restraint use among hospitalized children with known behavior concerns.

methodsWe conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of restraint events in all hospitalizations from 2017 to 2019 on a 10-bed medical-surgical unit with dedicated mental health clinician support. We examined characteristics of restraint events, used adjusted logistic regression models to identify independent risk factors for restraint use, and used an adjusted Poisson regression model to determine the adjusted rate of restraint events per hospital day.

resultsThe sample included 1507 hospitalizations representing 1235 patients. Among included hospitalizations, 48% were for a psychiatric indication awaiting transfer to an inpatient psychiatric unit, and 52% were for a primary medical or surgical problem. Sixteen percent had a restraint event. Patient demographic characteristics were not associated with risk of a restraint event. Having a psychiatric indication for hospitalization was an independent risk factor for restraint use (odds ratio: 2.85; 95% confidence interval: 2.06-3.94). Rate of restraint use per day decreased as length of stay increased; hospitalizations lasting 9 days or longer had a 58% lower rate of restraint use per day than 1- to 2-day hospitalizations (

conclusionsInterventions to reduce restraint use may benefit from incorporating information about a patient's psychiatric risk factors, including type and number of diagnoses and reason for hospitalization. Future efforts could investigate whether providing enhanced behavior supports during the first several days of a patient's hospitalization reduces violent restraint use.

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HospitalizationHospitals, PediatricChildCross-Sectional StudiesHumansRetrospective StudiesRisk Factors

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PMID34230060
PMCPMC8336459
OpenAlexW3182886665

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