Use of coercion at Danish psychiatric wards by day of week and time of day.

CONCLUSIONS: The initiation of coercion was lower during evenings, nights and weekends, but different coercive types and hospitals followed different diurnal patterns, which indicates unexplained variations. FUNDING: The establishment of the data set was funded by the Public Health Officers North. TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant. PMID: 28869030 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Danish Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Dan Med J Source Type: research