Weekend prescribing practices and subsequent seclusion and restraint in a psychiatric inpatient setting.

Objective: This case-control study examined the role of early medication management in preventing seclusion and restraint.

Methods: Data were extracted from the medical records, including whether standing medication was increased, decreased, or left unchanged during the first 48 hours of hospitalization.

Results: Compared with inpatients who did not experience seclusion or restraint (N=39), those who did (N=39) were younger (p=.