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 ...

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 ...

Although the use of physical restraint was generally uncommon in the emergency department (ED), Black patients were more likely to experience this during patient encounters compared with white ...

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.

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 ...

Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs uses Patient Record Flags to alert staff when veterans may face or pose heightened safety ...

LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...