Table 2 General characteristics of the cases (n = 38)
From: Is physical restraint unethical and illegal?: a qualitative analysis of Korean written judgments
Characteristics | Number |
|---|---|
Place | Â |
 Hospital | 24 |
 General ward | 9 |
 Intensive care unit | 5 |
 Psychiatric ward | 5 |
 Long-term care hospital | 4 |
 Emergency room | 1 |
 Nursing home | 12 |
 Ambulance | 1 |
 Residential homes for people with intellectual disability | 1 |
Care recipient’s condition |  |
 Cognitive deficits | 22 |
 Medical tubes, lines, and catheters | 4 |
 Both | 10 |
 Not applicable | 2 |
Frontline health workers | Â |
 Health professionals | 17 |
 Health care assistants | 19 |
 Ambulance workers | 1 |
 Care staff in the residential homes  for people with intellectual disability | 1 |
Consequences of care recipients | Â |
 Cases on the use of PR (n = 27) |  |
  Fall | 4 |
 Self-removal of medical tubes, lines, and catheters | 3 |
 Expire | 5 |
 Nothing happened | 3 |
 No information | 12 |
 Cases on the disuse of PR (n = 11) |  |
  Fall | 7 |
 Self-removal of medical tubes, lines, and catheters | 3 |
 Expire | 0 |
 Nothing happened | 1 |