Restrictive Practices Legislation Highly Complex for Doctors
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The AMA(SA) supports the move to enable doctors to temporarily restrain patients with impaired decision-making capacity where there is a risk of harm to themselves or others but they must be educated about the complexities of judging impaired decision-making capacity.