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Patients with psychiatric disorders are increasingly subjected to restrictive measures in Swiss hospitals, according to a Tages-Anzeiger report. Experts and judicial authorities view the trend with concern. Committing patients against their will, tying them to their bed, isolating them in a room and administering forced medication are methods that have become relatively common at psychiatric clinics in Switzerland, according to the Swiss-German language newspaper. The proportion of cases in which at least one restraint measure was applied reached 11.5% in 2021, compared with 9.4% in 2019, the newspaper reported, citing a study by the National Association for Quality Development in Hospitals and Clinics (ANQ). In an international comparison, Switzerland leads the way in forced hospitalisations. Last resort Samia Hurst, a physician and ethicist at the Geneva University Hospital (HUG), believes such methods should remain the exception. That s because measures limiting freedom of movement
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