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Table 1 Number and proportion of mechanical restraint and seclusion in seven German and seven Swiss psychiatric hospitals

From: The use of mechanical restraint and seclusion in patients with schizophrenia: A comparison of the practice in Germany and Switzerland

Interventions

 

Germany

Switzerland

 

mechanical restraint (number of hospitals = 7)

seclusion (number of hospitals = 7)

mechanical restraint (number of hospitals = 6)

seclusion (number of hospitals = 7)

N

2499

2510

168

643

%

49.9 %

50.1 %

20.7 %

79.3 %

  1. In one Swiss hospital no mechanical restraint was used.