Nursing Homes Cut Back on Restraints

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer, Medicine & Health / Health

(AP) -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on eliminating what once was a common practice.

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