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- Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editor’s Note on Nomenclature
- Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Basic Science and General Principles
- Part 2 Psychopharmacology of the Main Psychotropic Drug Groups
- Part 3 Specific Therapeutic Areas
- Chapter 17 Psychotropic Drug Treatment in Childhood and Adolescence
- Chapter 18 Psychotropic Drug Treatment in Later Life
- Chapter 19 Psychotropic Prescribing in Pregnancy and Lactation
- Chapter 20 The Clinical Management of Acute Disturbance Including Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 21 Antipsychotics, Weight Gain and Metabolic Risk
- Index
- References
Chapter 20 - The Clinical Management of Acute Disturbance Including Rapid Tranquillisation
from Part 3 - Specific Therapeutic Areas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 May 2020
- Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editor’s Note on Nomenclature
- Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Basic Science and General Principles
- Part 2 Psychopharmacology of the Main Psychotropic Drug Groups
- Part 3 Specific Therapeutic Areas
- Chapter 17 Psychotropic Drug Treatment in Childhood and Adolescence
- Chapter 18 Psychotropic Drug Treatment in Later Life
- Chapter 19 Psychotropic Prescribing in Pregnancy and Lactation
- Chapter 20 The Clinical Management of Acute Disturbance Including Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 21 Antipsychotics, Weight Gain and Metabolic Risk
- Index
- References
Summary
In psychiatric and emergency healthcare settings, episodes of agitation and violence are relatively common. One meta-analysis reported that 32.4% of patients behaved violently during admission to a psychiatric ward; this was the mean rate of violence based on 122 studies from 11 countries (Bowers et al., 2011). The comparable rate in the UK studies was 41.7%. A study of general adult wards of a UK inner-city mental health trust found violence rates for 49% of men and 39% of women in the 6-month period studied (Hodgins et al., 2007).
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- Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology , pp. 599 - 618Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020