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 ...

A Times analysis of federal data found that Los Angeles General Medical Center physically restrained inpatients in its psychiatric unit at some of the highest rates in the country from 2018 through ...

Patients and their relatives say there is a culture of abuse at a mental health hospital.

One New York hospital’s security officers used a police-style “bent arm bar” hold on a pediatric patient under age 19, breaking her arm. Another hospital’s security team handcuffed a patient to a ...

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

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 ...

Restraint is a barbaric business in psychiatry. It would be an understatement to say it was savage. Didn't the psychiatrist tell me that everything they do is to protect the patient? Why do they take ...

WASHINGTON -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed ...

A mental health institution in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, was caught in a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ...