Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING FOR RAPID TRANQUILLISATION IN ADULT FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH INPATIENT SETTINGS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY.

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Restrictive practice and how coercion is exercised on forensic units sit squarely in standard-of-care territory, and this adds a documentation-level mechanism — later recognition of escalation, thinner evidence of de-escalation attempts — by which ethnic disparities in rapid tranquillisation could arise. But it is nineteen purposively selected cases read through chart notes at a single service, hypothesis-generating by the authors' own account, and it changes neither any clinician obligation nor any assertion an evaluator could defensibly make in a report.

Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2026;35(4):e70323.