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Against the stream: intermittent nurse observations of in-patients at night serve no purpose and cause sleep deprivation
This paper argues that intermittent nursing observations of in-patients at night do not reduce the risk of suicide or severe self-harm. Suicides between 23.00 h and 07.00 h are rare, and these overwhelmingly occur under intermittent observations. Such observation is purely a defensive intervention t...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30739621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2018.116 |