The Effect of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program on the Use of Restraint and Seclusion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients in inpatient psychiatry settings are uniquely vulnerable to harm. As sources of harm, research and policy efforts have specifically focused on minimizing and eliminating restraint and seclusion. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting (IPFQR) program attempts to systematically measure and reduce restraint and seclusion. We evaluated facilities' response to the IPFQR program and differences by ownership, hypothesizing that facilities reporting these measures for the first time will show a greater reduction and that ownership will moderate this effect.

Methods

Using a difference-in-differences design and exploiting variation among facilities that previously reported on these measures to The Joint Commission,

SUBMITTER: Shields MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7495495 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature