Rising Use of Physical Restraints in Hospitalized Adults in the USA.

Between 2016 and 2020, the number of patients and the overall percentage compared to all hospitalizations have increased from 0.6% in 2016 to 1.0% in 2020 ( I p i SB trend sb < 0.01). In their article entitled "Coding for Physical Restraint Status Among Hospitalized Patients: a 2019 National Inpatient Sample Analysis", Luccarelli et al. found various differences in patient characteristics and outcomes.[1] As they further mentioned "reduction of the use of physical restraints has been a target for quality improvement interventions, and has led to interdisciplinary quality improvement efforts"[1], we used data from the 2016-2020 National Inpatient Sample[2] to evaluate for trends in physical restraint status in the USA among patients of ages 18 and above. Coding for Physical Restraint Status Among Hospitalized Patients: a 2019 National Inpatient Sample Analysis. [Extracted from the article]