Hospital Security Searches Among Patients With Substance-Related Encounters

This cohort study evaluates the clinical context and outcomes of room searches among patients with substance-related hospital encounters.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  JAMA Network Open

• Publication date

  2025-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.1068PMID 40100213PMCID 11920837
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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