[[Manual/Releases.ReleaseRecord0025][]] Note for "Minutes of Physical Restraint"

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Rationale

To clarify definition and exclusions.

Description

Under the guidelines for abstraction inclusion in the first paragraph change:
A physical restraint is any manual or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment that immobilizes or reduces the ability of a patient to move his or her arms, legs, body or head freely when it is used as a restriction to manage a patient’s behavior or restrict the patient’s freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment for the patient’s medical or psychiatric condition.¹

to:

A physical restraint is any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment that immobilizes or reduces the ability of a patient to move his or her arms, legs, body or head freely when it is used as a restriction to manage a patient’s behavior or restrict the patient’s freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment for the patient’s medical or psychiatric condition.¹

Under the Guidelines for Abstraction under exclusion add:

• Restraint uses that are forensic or correctional restrictions applied and used by designated hospital security personnel for the purpose of transporting the patient to court off the locked unit.