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Title: Health service use and costs associated with aggressiveness or agitation and containment in adult psychiatric care: a systematic review of the evidence
Author: Rubio Valera, Maria
Luciano, Juan Vicente  
Ortiz Moreno, José Maria
Salvador Carulla, Luis
Gracia, Alfredo
Serrano Blanco, Antoni
Others: University of Sydney
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Citation: Rubio-Valera, M., Luciano, J.V., Ortiz, J.M., Salvador-Carulla, L., Gracia, A. & Serrano-Blanco, A. (2015). Health service use and costs associated with aggressiveness or agitation and containment in adult psychiatric care: a systematic review of the evidence. BMC Psychiatry, 15(1). doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0417-x
Abstract: Agitation and containment are frequent in psychiatric care but little is known about their costs. The aim was to evaluate the use of services and costs related to agitation and containment of adult patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital or emergency service.
Keywords: aggression
agitation
containment
costs
health services research
inpatients
acute psychiatric wards
review
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0417-x
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/review
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 4-Mar-2015
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/  
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