The long-term use of benzodiazepines: patients' views, accounts and experiences

Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 491-497

  Barter, Gabrielle ^a   Cormack, Maggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Benzodiazepines; Elderly; Long term; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SENESCENCE; SLEEP; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030454874     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/13.6.491     Document Type: Article

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