Hospitals – Restraint/Seclusion Interpretive Guidelines & Updated State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix A
Guidance for: This memorandum provides state survey agency directors with an advance copy of the State Operations Manual's revised Appendix A. It summaries the changes to this appendix and includes hospital restraint and seclusion interpretive guidelines.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: April 11, 2008
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