Racial Disparities in Emergency Department Physical Restraint Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Recent studies have demonstrated that people of color are more likely to be restrained in emergency department (ED) settings compared with other patients, but many of these studies are based at a single site or health care system, limiting their generalizability.

Objective

To synthesize existing literature on risk of physical restraint use in adult EDs, specifically in reference to patients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Data sources

A systematic search of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and CINAHL was performed from database inception to February 8, 2022.

Study selection

Included peer-reviewed studies met 3 criteria: (1) published in English, (2) original human participants research performed in an adult ED, and (3) reported an outcome

SUBMITTER: Eswaran V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520842 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature