A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police.
The American College of Emergency Physicians in a statement called the paper outdated and said the term excited delirium should not be used by members who testify in civil or criminal cases.
Earlier this week, California became the first state to bar the use of excited delirium and related terms as a cause of death in autopsies.
Other medical groups, including the American Medical Association, had previously rejected excited delirium as a diagnosis.
The emergency physicians group had distanced itself from the term previously, but it had stopped short of withdrawing its support for the 2009 paper.
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