Six years of national mental health seclusion data: the Australian experience.

CONCLUSIONS: Seclusion event rates in Australia's specialised public acute mental health hospital services are declining. The use of existing administrative data was instrumental in establishing a national data source to facilitate the monitoring and reporting of progress of seclusion reduction strategies.
PMID: 28375028 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Allan JA, Hanson GD, Schroder NL, O'Mahony AJ, Foster RM, Sara GE Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research